Reddit question: If AI creates universal abundance, why invest at all?
AlephMartian · reddit · 2026-10-27
Prompted by news of Anthropic's IPO, a Reddit poster flags a paradox in the AI pitch: "invest in us and superintelligent AI will create abundance for everyone" — but if that's true, money stops meaning anything and everyone will have what they need, so why invest now? A short but pointed challenge to the tension between AGI investment logic and the abundance narrative.
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