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by sciencejerk 11 days ago
How about cheap healthcare? Or affordable housing, water, electricity and food? Is AI improving human quality of life?
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Objectivly. Yes. Not only am seeing it being used to increase farming yields it's also improving healthcare. Both water and electricity are the lowest they have ever been as a percentage of income and only getting lower. People keep looking at flat dollar figures like inflation isn't a thing and it's still 1995 or something. In reality we're accelerating to an abundance economy.

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/most-us-richer-ev...

The pessimistic attitude here is exhausting. In reality it's by far the best time ever to be a human on this planet.

I must be living in a different universe. Where I am, people under 40 cannot afford to buy a house. This was certainly very different in the 80ies of 90ies.
I got mine at 34 and I'm not 40 just yet.
Good for you. You are also an outlier. It seems that there are a lot of people here who don't care as long as they are well off.

We also own a house, but I hate it that many people can't afford one. The system is broken.

Do you know what outlier means? Millennial home ownership rate is above 55%. It out paces Gen-X.