I am so relieved to learn that AI is not going to put folks out of work but rather give them super powers. And anyone it does put out of work was not a “real” worker anyway.

Found this in a letter from my dad to his dad, written Thanksgiving 1974. He had made full professor a few years earlier, and it's interesting to see the younger professors starting to freak out about the end of the post-war academic boom. Austerity never ends well.

And what they want instead (this was an empty lot that was going to be town homes but now has a restrictive covenant):

Think of the hours wasted stopping at red lights:

Yeah what’s the point of being a libertarian economist if you have to drive such a cheap car?

Maybe it could start by just causing fewer problems.