The accumulation of wealth on one pole is at the same time the accumulation of poverty on the other. In this holiday period, nearly two-thirds of Americans say they would struggle to cover an unexpected $1,000 expense. More than one in four have skipped medical care due to cost. Workers are being told there is no money for wages, healthcare, housing, or education—while one man pockets the equivalent of $50 million an hour.
I asked Socialism AI what Musk's wealth could do to address social problems, and the response was illuminating. The resources monopolized by just one individual could finance the construction of three million high-quality, affordable homes; build and staff thousands of community health clinics, expand public healthcare, slash drug prices, and prevent countless deaths caused by rationed care; cancel roughly half student debt; rebuild public transport and energy systems to cut living costs and confront climate change; and relieve crushing debt and fund essential development in the poorest countries.
Inequality on this scale cannot be maintained through democratic means. That is why the courts openly legitimize corporate criminality, why the political system serves the oligarchy, and why governments respond to popular opposition with repression and war.
The purpose of the World Socialist Web Site is to tell the truth about this reality and to arm workers and young people with a revolutionary socialist program to change it. It has launched Socialism AI as a means of educating workers throughout the world, connecting the lessons of history with the developing struggles throughout the world.
As WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North explained in a reply to a reader posted today, Socialism AI "opens up the possibility of breaking the stranglehold of the ruling class over an extraordinarily powerful new technology by adapting it, to the greatest extent possible, to the interests of the working class."
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