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It's important to realize that technology, innovation, & capitalism have been the key drivers of improvements in human prosperity & increases in standards of living. Leo XIII was dead-wrong, and its a good thing he was not successful in blocking progress.

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The Pope used the wrong historical template - and @bgurley had the receipts. On @theallinpod EP275: Pope Leo XIV modeled his AI encyclical on Leo XIII's 1891 warning against the Industrial Revolution. @bgurley's response: Leo XIII was wrong on every count. Real wages rose 8-10x, child labor fell from 18% to zero, global poverty dropped from 75% to under 10%, life expectancy rose 60%. The irony is not subtle. The chosen template is history's clearest example of catastrophist forecasting failing. But the Pope's centralization concern - that technology takes on the characteristics of those who build, finance, and control it - is the right frame. It just lands on the wrong policy response. @Jason on @theallinpod broke down why the concern is valid even when the precedent is wrong. Full encyclical analysis and the centralization debate: https://t.co/jMpI1HM3m1 Source: All-In Podcast - https://t.co/KGy4im5S1a
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