That's the thing I am struggling with. I agree things will exponentially improve with AI. What i am not seeing is who will actually capture the value. Or rather how will those other than rich and powerful get to partake in this value capture. Take viable commercial fusion for example. Best case it ends up looking like another PG&E. Worst case it is owned by yet another Musk like gatekeeper. How do you see this being truly democratized and accessible for the masses?

The most rosy outcome would be benevolent state actors control it, and the value capture is simply for everyone as the costs for everything go to zero (food, energy, housing, etc). It would be post-capitalist, post-consumer.

Of course the problem is whether or not it could be controlled, and in that case, the best hope is simply 'it' being benevolent and naturally incentivized to create such a utopia.

It's funny how tied humans are to current ways of operation given our vast history... we're trying to figure out how to hold onto an idea that's about a century old, Keynesian economics, that made sense during the dawn of the industrial revolution, was supercharged by the information age, and apply it forever forward.

We have something else possibly upon us that requires another grave, much more forceful shift if a super-intelligent, sentient AGI emerges. It's silly to think we'll have an even more supercharged version of our current reality given that nearly all jobs (outside of possibly entertainment) will be wiped away.

Why would the cost of housing go to zero?