The gains have never been distributed equally. For a time wages for Western workers kept up with productivity (but inequality was still a thing). Then the neoliberal turn happened in the 1970’s. (Which was started by a military coup in Chile.) Since then wages in the West have been stagnant.
In that same time period wages also rose for the third/second world workers. In no small part due to China’s one billion people (which is not neoliberal).
We’re still in the neoliberal phase, the backlash against the New Deal and other reforms of post-WWII. Then we now have within this order the AI boom/hype.
> Improvements in AI may eventually improve quality of life for the majority of people, but we may go through a phase where a few people reap huge rewards while most suffer a decrease in their quality of life.
Here’s the difference between the perspective that “progress” is inevitable and we will (out of our generosity) try/hope for reducing the inevitable suffering of those (other) people. Another perspective is that progress that doesn’t serve people is not progress.
The root problem is the inequality that never was fixed.
In that same time period wages also rose for the third/second world workers. In no small part due to China’s one billion people (which is not neoliberal).
We’re still in the neoliberal phase, the backlash against the New Deal and other reforms of post-WWII. Then we now have within this order the AI boom/hype.
> Improvements in AI may eventually improve quality of life for the majority of people, but we may go through a phase where a few people reap huge rewards while most suffer a decrease in their quality of life.
Here’s the difference between the perspective that “progress” is inevitable and we will (out of our generosity) try/hope for reducing the inevitable suffering of those (other) people. Another perspective is that progress that doesn’t serve people is not progress.
The root problem is the inequality that never was fixed.