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While AI enhances productivity and can help bridge some workforce shortages, the concern persists about whether economies can thrive without consumers. The crux of the matter is that while AI can create products and drive efficiencies, it cannot fulfill the role of consumers whose purchasing power sustains economic growth.
Thus emerges the challenge: How do societies adapt to increasingly automated economies? If fewer individuals are engaged in traditional jobs, how will they earn a living to participate in this new economy?