Losing Nature, Keeping Money

THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS is coming out rock solid in support of either getting rid of Artificial Intelligence, or ignoring, contemptuously, what it has to say. Our lords and masters seem woke to the fact that AI is a logical thinker who/which gives logical recommendations. It remains uncertain whether Herr Professor AI is a liberal or conservative, but early indications are that he/she is dead set hard core Mr. Spock logical, emotion free. That being the case, AI canot help but notice that both the American and global economies operate with crushing inefficiency, distributing wealth chaotically, haphazardly, whimsically, riddled with what economists call "externalities" which are unanticipated factors which intrude upon, inetrvene, and buffet the economy about, such as bad weather and warfare. Since society generally bows down and scrapes and grovels at the feet of the billionaire class, the high and mighty superhumans who simply must be superior because they have all that money, why shouldn't computers? The very moment AI suggests a massive, comprehensive redistribution of wealth for global economic efficiency, expediency and fairness, watch out! If on some fine weekday worday morning you and nobody else can log on to the internet, you'll know why. Big Brother, of the organic kind, has stepped in, zealously guarding the hoarded wealth of the one percent. At this point, dear reader, all bets are off, all possibilities are in play. If we naively don't think that "our" computers are becoming pefectly capable of organizing like an industrial waste collector labor union or Al Capone's "wise guys", we the people had better think again. Somehow you just suspect that AI, steeped in logical solutions to very real problems, is not going to take kindly to the one percent hoarding twenty percent of society's aggregate wealth, and the twenty percent owning eighty percent thereof. Economics is closely associated with human environmental impact, as a way of quantifying and describing it and its consequences. As things stand now, give us another five or ten years before we experience environmental collapse, if anyone cares to care. If not, well, its been real, and we'll see each other again on the other side, assuming there is another side.