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Eric Siu argues the wealth gap might be acceptable if everyone has access to food, water, energy, top-tier AI education, and healthcare. He compares living standards now versus 1900 to show how much the baseline has risen.
Eric Siu argues the wealth gap might be acceptable if everyone has access to food, water, energy, top-tier AI education, and healthcare. He compares living standards now versus 1900 to show how much the baseline has risen.
But if I were to say to you, listen, 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, right? So 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, right? Access to all the energy they need, the food they need, the water they need. So I believe that's where we're heading towards. Massive gap, but the base is one that we can feel great about. Does that make sense? I mean, if I ask people, what would you rather live today in 2023 or in 1900?
