Zack Kass

If we could figure out radiology scans, so we didn't have to see a radiologist, so the radiologist could be automated.

If we could figure out how to stand buildings up,

in minutes instead of years so we automate the construction workers we can all observe that that world is better economically the problem is the automation boundary what is the limit of it and i don't know but my point in all this is talking about automation like it is this like pejorative is actually the issue because the issue at hand is purpose the issue at hand is clearly identity

And I will add one more thing and then I'll go.

We can wrap this.

When I wrote the book, I wrote it in homage to John Maynard Keynes, who wrote a paper in 1930 that I have read more than any other academic paper in my life.

I've read it hundreds of times.

I've memorized it verbatim.

I can recite it to you now.

And he wrote this paper against the backdrop of global despair and suffering.

He wrote it at a time when people were literally dying of starvation in the street.

And he was traveling Europe, giving this lecture series, and he came back to the States.

And he wrote, and I quote, I must now disembarrass myself to take wings into the future to imagine a world that I will certainly not live to see, one in which humans will have solved the economic problem and be faced with something more profound.

The father of modern macroeconomics,

was arguing that on the horizon was a spiritual battle.

And I totally agree.

I look around the world and I'm like, the problem is not going to be, are we fed?

The problem is not going to be, can I eat something?

Can I do this thing?

Can I buy this thing?