Eric Siu argues that extreme AI-driven wealth concentration is acceptable if everyone gets guaranteed access to top-tier AI education, healthcare, energy, food, and water. The real question isn't stopping billionaires from becoming trillionaires, but ensuring basic quality of life for all.
It's okay to have massively wealthy individuals as long as everyone else has access to all the food, water, energy, healthcare, education that they want. The gap is wider, but the base of the gap is a life that a mom is proud to have her kids have. So do I care if there are trillionaires living forever on Mars? As long as every man, woman, and child has access to AI that gives them the best education—not a good education, the best education—AI that gives them the best diagnostic healthcare available, access to all the energy they need, the food they need. They need, the water they need. I believe that's where we're heading towards. Massive gap, but the base is one that we can feel great about.
