# @LefterisJP: How will AI's radical abundance benefit everyone vs just big corps?

Source: https://x.com/LefterisJP/status/1936809772436640026
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/LefterisJP-How-will-AIs-radical-abundance-benefit-everyone-vs-just-big-corps?index=0x6858e4d21c3bdfa27dd9ec6886590f243e8f886bb6f81f0c327af28482a2cafcde484cfa
Submitted by tim on 2025-06-23 UTC, 5 upvotes, 1 comment

## Summary

The author asks how the "radical abundance" promised by AI accelerationists, in which everyone shares in AI-driven wealth and finds meaning beyond work, could benefit all of humanity rather than being captured by a few large corporations. The post cites a podcast host, @tamaybes on the Hard Fork podcast, as an example of this view that AI will automate all jobs within 10 years. The author says the vision sounds appealing but seems to lack key details on how it would be implemented, and that under the current system where big corporations build AI and capture its rewards, a dystopian outcome seems the natural result. The post closes by asking for others' thoughts as AI replacing many jobs looks increasingly likely.

## Article

Whenever I talk to an AI accelerationist  or listen to a podcast about how AI will automate all our jobs in the next 10 years (from example from @tamaybes at the Hard fork podcast) there is always this notion of radical abundance and that we would all be sharing in it.

That somehow we would all find meaning beyond work and also have much richer lives and access to many more things than today.

That all sounds really great but also I don't know how it would work out.

AI is being built under a system where big corporations build it and capture the rewards.

How are we going to go to a system that will benefit everyone and humanity as a whole and not one where this radical abundance is going to be captured by a few and the rest of us are going to be slaves to them and their AI?

Because under the current system I see the dystopian scenario as the one that would naturally come if things progress as expected with this technology.

The Utopian radical abundance scenario where everyone benefits seems to me like it's missing some key pieces of how it will be implemented.

I am really curious what are people's thoughts on this as AI replacing lots of jobs seems indeed more and more likely.

## Comments

**misha**: consider two scenarios: 

privately owned company buys AI / robot, fires half of the workers, director buys superyagt for trophy wife and goes on elephant hunt.
  
company owned by it’s workers buys AI / robot, everyone keeps their job, workers spend more time with their families and writing open source software in spare time.