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See the general subject of "elite overproduction".

It's not clear at all where "AI" is going. Once AIs get reliable enough to be put in charge of things, rather than being merely advisory, we will have a very different society. Everybody here has probably read the late Marshall Brain's "Manna", which outlines how that might play out.

(I'm reading Pikkety's new "Capital and Ideology". Not far enough in to comment yet.)