Dario Amodei, the co-founder of Anthropic, discusses how AI is going to bring a world with a very high GDP rate and very high unemployment and inequality, never seen before.
He goes on to acknowledge that, usually, a high GDP means high employment, but AI will strip jobs.
Amazing for motivation:
“Everyone is unhappy; the only people who are not unhappy are, literally, executives,” an Instagram employee told WIRED”
That is just where we want Meta ;)
Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas costs $2,052/person to sail wealthy families from Florida to Texas for 9 days with excessive amenities - many require additional fees:
The documentary features six Israeli soldiers talking about their military experiences in Gaza and the West Bank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI6rTimkfJE
Looking at how much conflict natural resource-rich countries (oil, gold, diamonds..) seem to attract, I wonder whether such wealth is more a curse than a blessing.
Many regions with scarce natural resources, adapted & perform very well. Some of the richest are examples (Switzerland, Luxembourg, Singapore..)
Looks to me like the greed for them attracts conflicts: civil wars, invasions etc. Cultural, ethnic, religious reasons often just seem to be used to cover it.
Plus all the environmental destruction / pollution that come with the extraction & processing.