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When you have AI making better and improved AI then you got a problem. I really do not see why we need AI. The problem with business is they are all about making money. The problem is at what cost to human lives. The old days if a town or city had many employers and good jobs then that city grew and the economy grew with it. Now you replace those jobs with machines and what happens the economy tanks for that town or city. Yes the owners of the companies make great money and the stocks are awesome but at the cost of human lives and putting them in the poor house soon or later those people wont have enough money to afford what the businesses are selling. So in the end the rich owners will lose as well. The economy relys on a balance between workers and companies. If only the companies are making money then the workers have none to spend. Captialism is ok when the balance works and the money and wealth has a nice curve upwards. But in the last 40 years of Reagan ecnomics the 1% own more wealth then the bottom 99%. The economy only booms if the wealth is spread across everyone on a nice curve upwards. A strong middle class makes a good flowing economy where yes the 1% can still make some good coin but also the upper class and the middle class. The Poor can slowly rise to middle class with education and room to advance. Now Trump might have created a lot of jobs but what kind of jobs is the question to ask. Min wage jobs are more like slave wages today. 7.25 an hour with current prices and consumer index you will be poor your entire life. I'm quite sure AI and computers could figure out this problem yet politians cannot even see it.