Comment by David Autor

AI, if used well, can assist with restoring the middle-skill, middle-class heart of the US labor market.

New industries will emerge to meet infinitely unfolding consumer demand, just as our ancestors could not have fathomed the modern roles of flight attendants and software salespeople.

So although I do not at all like the idea of universal basic income because I don’t think it solves many problems, and I think it creates others, I do like the idea of what some people call universal basic wealth where people are granted the endowmen...