Growth At All Costs: Author Skewers Right's AI-Replacement Argument
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-07
The author critiques the right-leaning intelligentsia stance that AI automation and human replacement are good because growth makes everyone better off. He argues the position collapses without a viable wealth-transfer mechanism, boiling down to endorsing massive growth while disregarding the poor, including the newly poor.
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