If the US produces X amount of goods and services now, AI will assist us in creating X+Y amount of goods and services. This means we will have significantly more resources for the same number of people.
There will almost certainly need to be a different function to get the money into the peoples’ hands (such as removing taxes for middle and lower class), but they will get enough to at least cover basic needs one way or another even if it requires force.
The main suffering will happen to those whose jobs are eliminated first where we don’t yet have a function in place to help them. These people may be facing significant hardship as their skills become instantly obsolete. Jobs that come to mind that will likely suffer the most are:
Graphic Designers
Content Creators
Data Entry (which has already been hit by Robotic Business Automation (RBA) macros)
The silver lining is we will have better products and services, with less total manhours, making everyone’s lives better overall.
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