Exactly, AI is only scary if you need a job to survive.

If AI takes work from us, we should be freed by not having to work, not doomed to starvation.

The current economic status quo is entirely unequipped to deal with the next couple of decades, and the options for progressive change are dwindling.

I'm absolutely not calling for revolution right now, but the glacial rate we're evolving our economy is going to make it inevitable or else we'll be left with some kind of Mad Max hellscape before the century is out.

Specifically capitalism paired with zero sum game mentality.

If someone is convinced the only way for themselves to win is to make other people (including me) lose, that's where the biggest problems happen.

They don’t want to look at the big picture, they’d rather focus on rage bait articles

Exactly, let's worry about the horrible people fucking over the planet first! AI is such an amazing opportunity for distraction, capitalists are gonna capitalize on that for sure!

I would argue that too much centralization in any economic system is the problem.

More so human nature. Humans are greedy.