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AI or Collapse America's Debt | Durham News
The U.S. national debt just shattered records, hitting $39 trillion — more than double in a decade — as interest payments now exceed the entire defense budget. With no clear plan from either party to fix it, Elon Musk’s radical vision offers a glimmer of hope: AI and robots could turbocharge productivity enough to trigger deflation and ease the debt burden within three years. He envisions a future of universal high income and abundance by 2040, where work is optional and scarcity is obsolete. But skeptics note that while Musk’s past predictions have come true, solving America’s decades-old…
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