Productivity has increased by nearly an order of magnitude since the 1960s but real wage growth hasn't kept up. The vast majority of wealth created in our curre

Productivity has increased by nearly an order of magnitude since the 1960s but real wage growth hasn't kept up. The vast majority of wealth created in our current economic system flows to corporations and asset management, which has had its good effects -- creation of new capital enterprises, VC, etc -- but also created a massive network of rentier capitalists like Ken Griffin whose motives for said wealth generation are unclear. The latter group would like nothing more than to sit on their unrealized gains and watch their porfolios increase in value with little to no concern for the net benefit of free enterprise, entrepreneurship, or society at large. Given that, it's hard to imagine a technocratic future where ML and LLMs enable increased productivity with a lower workload. The prevailing trends just run diametrically counter to the idea that this type of technological progress will yield any significant relief for the working and middle classes. The more likely scenario is that you use AI to increase your productivity and end up working the same hours every week with minimal wage growth, all in sacrifice to the great god of GDP.