If AI makes goods nearly free, why should anyone stay poor?
VraserX · x · 2026-10-24
VraserX poses a sharp question: if AI eventually makes producing goods and services almost free, why should anyone still be poor? Not a utopian overnight fantasy — he argues our economic system itself may become the biggest obstacle to enjoying the technology we created, calling that absurd. Part of the ongoing AGI-and-economics debate.
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