im sure people will continue to want to eat food, live in houses, go on vacation, look at phone, send email, drive car, even if there’s no ai money frothing around

> Without AI there is no future US economy

I'm already on it, man, don't need to convince me!

You promise?

In a word, baloney.

The US produces stuff, and it produces ideas. Yeah, it imports a lot of stuff too. But it exports things like food, movies, and software.

Without AI, the financial sector may take a huge hit. But the US economy? It will still be here, still producing things that are valuable.

Eh, the empire aka, protection of free trade as a service is still alive and well with no viable alternative on the horizon. Every other empire is either not free trade or - just plain mercantilism and thus will exploit way more then the quite "idealist" us- trump is just a taste of what the others in power would feel like.