Tristan Harris

And then you have law firms whose longevity depends on senior lawyers being trained from being a junior lawyer to a senior lawyer.

What happens when you don't have junior lawyers that are actually learning on the job to become senior lawyers?

You just have this sort of elite managerial class for each of these domains.

So you lose intergenerational knowledge transmission.

Interesting.

And that creates a societal weakening in the social fabric.

Which is a version of UBI or just carrying a safety net that covers everyone's basic needs.

So relieving student debt is on the way to creating kind of universal basic need meeting, right?

Yeah.

But I mean, we have that with social security.

We've done this when it came to pensions.

That was after the Great Depression, I think in like 1935, 1937, FDR created social security.

But what happens when you have to pay for everyone's livelihood everywhere in every country?

Again, how can we afford that?

Well, if the costs go down 10x of making things.

This is where the math gets very confusing because I think the optimists say you can't imagine how much abundance and how much wealth it will create.

And so we will be able to generate that much.

But the question is, what is the incentive again for the people who've consolidated all that wealth to redistribute it to everybody else?

We just have to tax them.

And how will we do that when the corporate lobbying interests of trillion-dollar AI companies can massively influence the government more than human political power?