Where did “growth mentality” come from?

I wasn’t making an “offer” either. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

I’m stating simple facts about how markets work. You could try to regulate to extremes that force companies (or your billionaire villains) to give everyone their money but without an actual sustaining market dynamic then it’s not going to get very far.

> companies in every other country would jump on the opportunity to use the same AI to do the same work without those restrictions

This is the capitalist prosperity gospel / growth mentality argument: if you don't race to the bottom on labor, someone else will! Two problems with that: one, the government can largely regulate access to its market -- the ability to do labor arbitrage is a policy choice not a law of physics -- and two, to the extent that the government can't regulate it, people care about the growth delivered to them not to billionaire brokerage accounts, so you have to normalize tho growth to what you actually pay people.