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> Instead we would expect the increased productivity to grow businesses further

This assumes infinite demand which is not a good assumption imo. Especially if people are losing their jobs.



You're right. My point is that AI isn't at the heart of the job shedding, it's just a scapegoat for other structural problems in the economy.


> This assumes infinite demand which is not a good assumption imo.

Yes, but "AI replaces people by improving productivity by 20-50%" is clearly a case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy. So maybe the "people are losing their jobs" is just totally unrelated to AI . . . but people keep repeating that "companies can do same work with fewer people thanks to AI" nonsense, so there will always be a need to remind them how actual economics work.




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