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rglullisyesterday at 11:26 PM1 replyview on HN

Baumol's Cost Disease is about relative costs. We are talking about productivity enabling absolute reduction in costs. Don't mix them up.


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twoodfintoday at 1:16 AM

We were talking about infrastructure costs under increasing labor productivity. Now what are we talking about?

If the premise is that AI won’t improve productivity in industries like healthcare, education, and housing construction, then why are we worried about “the dead economy”?