> Most of the people responsible for Government decisions are fairly well separated from most crises

A lot of the time it is actually even worse than this in that they are often in a position to benefit from the crises.

The real major economic problem of our day is the extent to which labor's share of productivity gains have plummeted and continue to plummet.

If your wealth comes from capital everything is going gangbusters and nothing needs to be fixed. Just listen to Trump talk about the economy and how blind he is to how normal people experience it.

And AI is just going to supercharge this problem.

Going way off topic here but, how can we expect AI 'alignment' when even country leadership doesn't align with the people any more?

On a relate-able scale, look at the 'alignment' difference between a worker and their manager; between an SWE and someone in mangement a couple of levels above. They're a different species, in terms of 'alignment', generally. They don't even speak the same language.

(I'm being hyperbolic, but hopefully the core of what I mean comes across).