Tim Barden
1 min readApr 11, 2024

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Great stuff! But, I would add economics to this list.

The paradigm shift caused by the rapid replacement of human labor by AI and machine labor is destabilizing economies because of its effects on the supply/demand curve of human labor. Until politicians and policymakers realize this, attempts at maintaining a stable economy will prove more and more difficult. Each year we cling to the old ways, we fall another decade behind the shift. In order to begin regaining control of the transition we need leadership that sees where we are headed and stops trying to take us back to where we were.

Two critical economic shifts we are struggling with…

1) The use of “earned income” as a social measure of ones relative worth to society. All disputes about what a “fair wage” is become absurd when most humans don't have a job. Wealth inequality will have to be discussed using a very different set of tools.

2) The argument that without the incentive of a higher income spurring us to work harder, humans suffer from various ills caused by lack of ambition. Although I don't believe it is true, if it is, humans will need to evolve past it and embrace ambition grounded in something other than scarcity driven competition.

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Tim Barden
Tim Barden

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