Can someone please explain to me in practical terms how AI makes us all rich
Summary
A user skeptically questions how AI will make everyone wealthy, referencing claims by Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Marc Andreessen about abundance and universal basic income, and pointing out practical and political challenges for non-US countries.
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