I don't see the previous poster saying they "want" anything.

Every civilizational advance “exacerbates inequality” because smart people can use it to become more productive, but dumb people can’t.

By that logic we should ban books. This is Boko Haram ideology and you are just a communist who thinks he should be protected from competition.

Instead of “making everyone well off“ here is what will actually happen, because that’s what happens every time communists seize power: everyone will get poorer, because they will be outcompeted by more sane jurisdictions, eg China.

> what happens every time communists seize power: everyone will get poorer, because they will be outcompeted by more sane jurisdictions, eg China.

Chinese Communist Party, guide us to Capitalism?

If the communists can learn how to use markets, capitalists can learn how to redistribute. It's not impossible, we did it 100 years ago last time capitalism drunk-drove the world economy into a ditch, I just hope we can do it without a Great Depression and World War this time.

> Chinese Communist Party, guide us to Capitalism?

Yes please.

> capitalists can learn how to redistribute

By that measure, the West hasn't been capitalist since Roosevelt. Which would be accurate btw.

Does it exacerbates inequality? There's no question that some people are going to get rich, and they might be the wrong person and we should hate them. But prior to the advent of AI being able to generate video and audio, an aspiring film maker would have to slave away at a shitty job and claw their way to relevance in order to try and get Sony/whomever's attention, and the rich people would finance their movie dreams. Now with AI, that budding young artist can make a feature length film for a couple thousand dollars instead of having to beg Universal or Walt Disney for some crumbs.

Yes. The nerds in SF openly discussed being part of the permanent underclass. These folks know what they're doing.