Reid Hoffman: belief

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…Let’s say we can afford it because of something like robots or AI. Doesn’t that, in a sense, make the problem worse? We feel less of an emergency. South Korea — they’re at 0.8. Just keep the clock on ticking. Eventually, they basically don’t have people left. How can that work out well for us? And the fact that someone pays the bill for our collective extinguishing of the human condition doesn’t reassure me. Obviously, you can do the math and go to diminishing zero. I think we’ll do various forms of incentive stimulus. I think we can get it back to at least a replacement rate. Among other things, we might say, “Look, actually, being a parent is a paid job. ” Just because we think that that’s an important thing as a society, and we can afford that from the productivity increases we’re getting from AI and robotics. So, we use the robot surplus, in essence, to pay families for that to be the second or third job in the family.…

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