Critic Says Right-Leaning Intelligentsia Backs AI Growth While Ignoring the Poor
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-07
The author critiques a popular right-leaning intelligentsia argument that automation and AI-driven economic growth—including outright human replacement—are good because massive growth creates wealth that benefits everyone. He counters that without a workable wealth-transfer mechanism, the argument amounts to endorsing growth while leaving the poor, including the newly poor, behind.
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