Moshe Lander

Let's say that you want to give the average person a thousand dollars a month.

That's not even going to cover rent.

And I don't care whether this is a U S listener or Canadian listener, a thousand bucks is not going to fix your problems.

So a thousand dollars a month, 12 months a year, that's $12,000 per man, woman, and child in Canada.

There's about 40 million of us.

So that's $480 billion worth of government spending that has to be generated.

Do you know how much mines melted on the side of the border when the federal government came in with a $300 billion deficit during the height of COVID?

And yet we're looking to create $480 billion of new spending.

For the American audience, U.S.

population is about nine times bigger.

So let's round off and say it's about $4.5 trillion worth of new spending.

How how much taxing of bots can you do and how many programs would have to be obliterated to merely replace this with that?

Like it's like I understand what he's trying to say, which is as an AI person, he's trying to deflect some of the heat that's going to come as people are massively laid off from AI.

But he's not saying, look, all of you are going to find jobs because with all of your free time, you're going to be able to reimagine what you want to do with your life.

And universities, post-secondary institutions, even high school and elementary school are going to adapt much the same way the kids don't learn how to write anymore because why would you need to?

Or much the same way they don't learn some basic skills that Eric and I would have learned when we were in school.

They're going to say, you know what, you don't need to learn some of these basic things because AI can do it.

But now you have all this free time to learn other stuff.

OK, so let's apply it to government then.

So if your argument is that all of us are going to be fired and replaced by AI, then conceptually, it's not my argument.