Tyler Cowen
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1,721 appearances
6 recordings
6 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 9 Jun
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I don't think we know the answer to that.
It is certainly not imminent.
To imagine a robot cleaning my carpet seems perhaps not too far away.
But if I think of everything I do throughout the course of a day in my job, never mind my life, and how much of it is physical and meeting with people and communicating and motivating and coordinating and inspiring,
I don't think we're anywhere close to getting robots to do that.
So people doing physical things will be a bottleneck for a very long time.
Higher wages will accrue to those bottlenecks.
People who are doing physical parts of broader production processes.
And if you imagine in some very distant future, you know, there's a robot for everything.
you're pretty close to scarcity having been solved.
You could then debate how should it be distributed?
Should there be a sovereign wealth fund?
Sal Maltman has talked about a UBI.
An easy way is just if people are able to buy land and capital in advance.
I think it's too far ahead for us to figure out what's the best approach.
But if everything's being done so incredibly well,
It's a wonderful position to be in overall.
It is true we haven't figured out how to manage it yet.
But that's like saying people in 1800 hadn't figured out how to manage the wealth of 2026.
Like it was okay they hadn't figured it out yet.
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