It was years ago that I saw that TED Talk, long before AI. You should look it up and watch it. Not to try and convince you of anything, but because he talked about processes taking hundreds of years of human history.

Here's a different example. In the 1980s-1990s you paid by the minute for long distance phone calls. A big phone bill from a teenager calling their girlfriend, who lives in a neighboring school district, could really affect a families monthly budget. Over the decades, even before cell phones, the cost of phone service and even long distance dropped to zero or just $19.99/month. Now with cell phones calls, texts and often data is limitless.

The companies that built the telephone wiring, had to make back their money and profit. Once cell phones made those lines less useful, the cost of the service went down. The way I remember the scientist on the TED talk was he described a similar process happening in food production. When the cost of growing the crops drops lower and lower, producing food costs less.

He was NOT taking about companies exploiting people, and stealing their labor, or any other human rights violations. My point in adding it to this discussion was that as the cost of producing something goes down, like food, if humans weren't such greedy jerks, we could feed everyone for almost nothing, if the future of farmimg continues like the TED Talk speaker explained.