"Henry Ford understood, perhaps apocryphally but correctly in principle, that his workers needed to earn enough to buy his cars. The AI economy is eliminating the workers and expecting the cars to keep selling" -- Owen McGrann
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https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory
Simon Brooke
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