> It's much more important that people live a dignified life and be able to feed their families than "increasing shareholder value" or whatever.

its just my intuition, but talking to many people around me, i get the feeling like this is why people on both "left" and "right" are in a lot of ways (for lack of a better word) irate at the system as a whole... if thats true, i doubt ai will improve the situation for either...