Ask HN: Do you believe in the Permanent Underclass theory?

The principal ideas of wealth inequality, motivation, and class have always existed and have nothing particularly to do with “AI”.

The real concern is the mind trap, where humans naturally become set in their ways through comfort, convenience, and limited ideology such as learned helplessness.

In every demographic, there will be those lucky, or motivated to break away, or inspired. And in every demographic there will be those who simply stay the same until something makes them change.

I liken this circumstance to that of literacy. One can literally teach themselves anything through dedicated self learning. Few do. Those who do break out and into a new tier of some other constraint.

There are a bunch of people where i live stay poor for decades even though gov handouts housing to free food. They spend all their earnings on alcohol