What Scott Sumner thinks about optimism

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Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting; wrote TheMoneyIllusion.

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1. 23 Sept 2026

   Our readingAI's long-run cost/benefit balance favors poorer people more than richer ones.

   Their wordsNonetheless, I suspect that in the long run the cost/benefit calculation for AI tends to favor the poor.

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