Until housing is solved the wealth divide will continue to grow whether ai lives up to expectations or not. Higher wealth taxing funding UBI etc. will be largely ineffective without solving housing.

All this new fangled talk about ABUNDANCE yadda yadda I find quite silly. We already live in abundance, most jobs for instance already pay very livable wages for example. It's just not livable because of mainly housing (& more broadly renting & land prices)

Housing is causing a wealth gap. A private company or three being able to rent virtual employees for $100,000 a year and absorbing all white collar work would cause far more of a wealth gap.

The abundance idea is quite interesting in that in the near future we may have an abundance of most stuff people want including healthcare, nice food cars etc. produced partly with AI and robots. At the moment we still need people to make stuff hence the capitalist system continues.

I agree housing is an issue but we are not at the stage where they can say everyone have a house and take a holiday.