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He is predicting a future that I foresaw several years ago.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/bill-gates-on-ai-h...

Not that Bill Gates is infallible (e.g. "nobody needs more than 640K of RAM"). He may even be off on his timing (10 years). But I think he is correct that at some point, likely within my lifetime, people won't be needed for many/most things.

I think Andrew Yang just ran for office a few cycles too early. His MBI is going to be mandatory, otherwise people won't have enough income to eat. Which leads to riots, anarchy, revolution...a mess.

I've been seeing this since The Jetsons. Heard it all the time as a kid. "Someday people will live lives of luxury, work 5 hours a week, and retire at 30." Finally, real progress!

I thought: So how will most people manage to earn a living....? If all we do is concentrate all the wealth in fewer and fewer hands we aren't making any progress.

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