Given wages are determined by supply and demand, and AI is causing the demand for labor to go down, the only logical outcome to keep wages at a reasonable level is to reduce the supply.
It seems the two easiest ways to do this is to reduce the work week from 40 hours to 32 (or even less) and to tax AI data center power consumption to fund public goods such as child care and housing.
Given wages are determined by supply and demand, and AI is causing the demand for labor to go down, the only logical outcome to keep wages at a reasonable level is to reduce the supply.
It seems the two easiest ways to do this is to reduce the work week from 40 hours to 32 (or even less) and to tax AI data center power consumption to fund public goods such as child care and housing.