It's what we need to automate decentralized production.
Efficiency and automation are both good for production, but everything comes at a cost.
enable our personal means of production to be automated and pump out wealth so we can live in inconceivable prosperity in absolute freedom
As AI improves, I wonder if the value of human creativity will diminish, as the arts (writing, art and music) become free and abundant to generate. Perhaps industries that rely on creativity for their business to be profitable may elect the cheaper AI option, over human talent.
My guess is that as AI advances, it will someday be locked up behind a paywall and become more and more expensive to use!