[looofooo0]

if people use it to make money, does this not mean that they providing some sort of service which is valued and hence it improves lifes?!

[dbdr]

In an ideal world, that would be true, but the actual world is very far from that. As an extreme example, AI is very useful to automate scamming people.

[inigyou]

No, money and value have been decorrelated for a long time. At least 5 years and arguably since Reagan.

[lanstin]

Like it was so correlated back in 1600? Under the Romans? But perhaps you just mean that the increased financialization of the US economy means that the percentage of economic wealth devoted to actions without value is increasing? Sort of a modern trajectory to 1789 with the foppish nobles not realizing how much everyone else can get along without them?

[Antipode]

There are a multitude of methods of obtaining money that do not benefit society.