> we are rapidly approaching the era where your access to AI and robotics determines your labor productivity
Some of the wealthiest, most powerful and yes, most productive people of the last decades had no clue how to use a computer or phone, interacting with it through staff.
Remember the folks who were teaching their kids to code ten years ago? How relevant is that today (beyond as a cognitive exercise)? Access to AI and robotics are secondary to other factors. Not the determinative ones, certainly not at the individual level.
Please parse that sentence more carefully. I said "labor productivity".
> Please parse that sentence more carefully. I said "labor productivity"
Yes. Unless we’re redefining labour to fit a square peg into a round hole, this remains true.
Access to the latest technology is never a sole determinant of productivity in any technological revolution. If anything, it having any relation to productivity is a modern phenomenon.
(Most kids who had a computer in the 80s or internet in the 90s didn’t become wildly more productive for it. They just found new ways to entertain themselves.)