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Bernie Sanders: Stop All AI, China's EUV Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?

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Bernie Sanders

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90 min

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2 min

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Personal Finance, Investing, Fundraising & VC

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Key Takeaways

  • AI Job Market Reality: Vanguard study shows occupations exposed to AI automation experience 1.7% job growth versus 0.8% for other sectors, with wage growth at 3.8% versus 0.7%, contradicting widespread job loss narratives through thirty-three months of post-ChatGPT data analysis.
  • China Lithography Progress: Chinese researchers at Tsinghua University use AI-driven neural networks to develop alternative lithography systems that work with suboptimal optics, potentially bypassing ASML's EUV monopoly through $48 billion National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund targeting manufacturing bottlenecks by 2028.
  • Federal Workforce Reduction: Trump administration cuts federal employment 10.7% from 2.4 million to 2.15 million workers, with 162,000 government job losses in two months offset by 121,000 private sector gains, representing first sustained federal workforce decrease in decades.
  • Tech Industry Social License: Industry leaders must deploy balance sheet capital for tangible public benefits like Carnegie's 2,500 libraries or Rockefeller's university investments to counter perception problems, as Wall Street values corporate cash reserves at zero in enterprise valuations.
  • California Fiscal Crisis: Proposed billionaire wealth tax triggers mass exodus despite politicians not uniformly rejecting it, while state pension system faces trillion-dollar underfunding gap, creating compounding revenue loss of $100-200 billion over five to ten years as high earners relocate.

What It Covers

Bernie Sanders proposes AI data center moratorium while China achieves EUV lithography breakthrough. Economic data shows inflation at 2.7%, unemployment rises to 4.6% amid federal workforce cuts. California wealth tax drives tech exodus to Texas.

Key Questions Answered

  • AI Job Market Reality: Vanguard study shows occupations exposed to AI automation experience 1.7% job growth versus 0.8% for other sectors, with wage growth at 3.8% versus 0.7%, contradicting widespread job loss narratives through thirty-three months of post-ChatGPT data analysis.
  • China Lithography Progress: Chinese researchers at Tsinghua University use AI-driven neural networks to develop alternative lithography systems that work with suboptimal optics, potentially bypassing ASML's EUV monopoly through $48 billion National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund targeting manufacturing bottlenecks by 2028.
  • Federal Workforce Reduction: Trump administration cuts federal employment 10.7% from 2.4 million to 2.15 million workers, with 162,000 government job losses in two months offset by 121,000 private sector gains, representing first sustained federal workforce decrease in decades.
  • Tech Industry Social License: Industry leaders must deploy balance sheet capital for tangible public benefits like Carnegie's 2,500 libraries or Rockefeller's university investments to counter perception problems, as Wall Street values corporate cash reserves at zero in enterprise valuations.
  • California Fiscal Crisis: Proposed billionaire wealth tax triggers mass exodus despite politicians not uniformly rejecting it, while state pension system faces trillion-dollar underfunding gap, creating compounding revenue loss of $100-200 billion over five to ten years as high earners relocate.

Notable Moment

A dog genetically identical to the host's deceased companion Monty was discovered at a kill shelter and adopted by his next door neighbor forty miles from the original rescue location, reuniting biological siblings from a decade-old San Francisco street litter through random chance.

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Episode Transcript

Alright, everybody. Welcome back to your favorite podcast, the number one podcast, in fact, in the entire universe, the All In podcast with your besties. We're all here. It's the original quartet. Everybody loves When the Core Four are here, and we have a donk it for you today. Guys, we gotta start out with Bernie Sanders. I know this is becoming a bit repetitive, but AI is the topic. We reached a new level of retardation this week that we cannot avoid. Bernie Sanders has a major decel pitch, a moratorium on new AI data centers. Here's his argument. Number one, the billionaires are pushing AI because they want more money and power. Number two, it's gonna be massive unemployment and he cites Skates, Star. Io, Elon saying that AI would replace most jobs. Number three, he, has an interesting point actually. AI is harmful to kids because it decreases social interaction. Actually, we kind of agree with that one, I think, across the board. But here's his pitch, Saxe. His pitch is yourself. You want your kids using these chatbotters? No. I've talked to my kids about it. Oh, okay. Well, we'll get into it. We can get into it, but I've talked to them about it. Look. If you actually look at the data, if you look at what kids are doing, it's so much more interactive and engaging for them to talk to their friends on Snap or to watch videos on TikTok. Those things are super engaging whereas doing research on an AI chatbot is just it's way less engaging and you see this in the data. So I'm not saying there's not an issue there. You wanna pay attention to the way that these technologies are shaping the minds of young kids but I think people get a little bit confused. What they're really talking about is social media and then they attribute all the ills of social media over to these new AI chat apps and they are a little different. You know, when I talked with, when I asked my kids, like, how much do you use these things? Are they addictive? They said, no. They're more just really useful. It's like Google. It's like I could There's two I couldn't do school without it. Yeah. There's two pieces here. One, using AI to be smarter and to learn stuff and ask questions. Absolutely fantastic. Phenomenal. I think we'll all agree on that. There is and I don't know if this is actually what he was referencing, but there's character AI in a in a long tail of spicy chats where people we talked about getting one shotted and these parasocial relationships. That's, I think, what he's referring to, but maybe I'm reading it wrong. But let's get into it here. His pitch is that we need to slow down so that, quote, democracy can catch up and that Congress should put a moratorium on new data centers. That's his solution. He …

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    Vanguard study shows occupations exposed to AI automation experience 1.7% job growth versus 0.8% for other sectors, with wage growth at 3.8% versus 0.7%, contradicting widespread job loss narratives through thirty-three months of post-ChatGPT data analysis.

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