Rand Paul

They're positing that this is different than it's ever been.

And I guess my argument and I'm like I say, I am willing to acknowledge these people may know more about this.

But my argument is from a historical perspective, we've never had any kind of invention or automation that ultimately led to less jobs.

It always led to more and led to more prosperity.

Now, they're arguing AI is going to get more prosperity.

And that's why they'll say artificial high income.

There will be plenty of money.

But there has to be work for the mental well-being of people.

They cannot sit around and it –

No, I agree.

Which gets back to my speakeasy, and it may or may not have to be secret, but people are going to go work even just to work.

But I also think that the more leisure time you have, AI is going to give – I grant them that AI is going to give us more leisure time.

And we also are progressing and progress is exponential at this point.

In 1820, before the Industrial Revolution, at the beginning of it, 98% of people lived on less than $2 a day.

And the World Bank does these statistics.

Everybody.

The only people who didn't were royalty.

The only obesity was among royalty.

Regular people, even in 1920, there were no fat people.

Well, they didn't have processed food back then.