If Joe Scarborough had been round firstly of the twentieth century, you might need discovered him on a avenue nook, haranguing anybody who would hear concerning the evils of the arrival of the auto.
Flip to at present, and there was Scarborough on Morning Joe, fulminating about synthetic intelligence. AI is stealing jobs from youthful Individuals, says Joe. And that is as a result of:
“Individuals in Washington is not going to stand as much as tech monopolists. They won’t stand as much as the billionaires that run this economic system. They won’t stand as much as the very people who find themselves going to get richer and richer on AI and depart you and your pals and your era additional and additional behind. It is that straightforward.”
Sure, so easy! Per Scarborough, the answer is very easy and apparent: “Break up tech monopolies.”
Proper on! Similar to again in 1969, when the feds determined that IBM’s supposed pc monopoly was the massive risk, and introduced an anti-trust lawsuit to interrupt it up. 13 years, and tens of tens of millions of {dollars} wasted by the feds and IBM later, the federal government withdrew the case, admitting it was “with out benefit.” Within the interim, many new firms had sprung up, producing quicker, higher, cheaper computer systems that peeled off large chunks of IBM’s market share. Any attainable monopoly had been undone not by authorities intervention, however by the ability of free markets.
And, significantly, Joe? AI monopolies are the issue? Have you ever not observed the cutthroat competitors among the many many AI firms, and the producers of the chips that they rely upon? If ever there have been an business that’s not monopolized, it is AI!
And but, echoing Scarborough’s name for the federal government to wield its powers, there was Axios honcho Jim VandeHei:
“The one factor authorities needs to be speaking about. How can we guarantee that everyone advantages from this expertise that is going to make a few firms awesomely highly effective and awesomely wealthy? And that is tremendous if everyone else advantages from it. However when you’ve got a bunch of individuals or a number of individuals getting actually wealthy, actually highly effective on the expense of everybody else, you are going to have a a lot larger mess than now we have at present.”
Yup: We’re from the federal government, and we will “ensure” that everyone advantages from AI–in the way in which that we politicians and bureaucrats assume is greatest! VandeHei additionally buys into the notion that the wealth pie is restricted: if some synthetic intelligence creators are getting “awesomely wealthy,” will probably be “on the expense of everybody else” — except authorities steps in.
Scarborough, sporting his greatest “AI, git-off-my-lawn!” face [see screencap], detected a dastardly scheme wherein “political leaders” are “distracting” younger individuals from realizing that AI is the reason for their job-hunting difficulties by as a substitute blaming, amongst others, “Somalians.”
“Somalians?” It is Somalis, Joe. And so they are rightly being blamed—for enormous fraud—however not for taking jobs. Maybe since Scarborough was so targeted on cash this morning, he had “semolians”—that old style slang time period for {dollars}—on the noggin, and that crept into his misnaming of Somalis.
Here is the transcript.
MS NOW
Morning Joe
1/23/26
6:04 am ETJOE SCARBOROUGH: We’re speaking about distractions like Greenland. We’re speaking about, I imply, and, you realize, this man proper right here [laughs as he points to photo of Howard Lutnick in the NYT] saying globalization has failed, when the USA has been dominant over the previous 80 years due to it.
You discuss a distraction. You discuss what my soccer coach in highschool would discuss majoring within the minors. It is simply sheer madness. That is one thing that ought to deliver everyone collectively to determine how working Individuals do not get began — and so they’re younger! Popping out of our greatest faculties on the planet even, not having the ability to get jobs due to AI.
JIM VANDEHEI: I’ve by no means in my life seen a much bigger disconnect between what individuals are fixating on and what they need to fixate on. It is the one factor authorities needs to be speaking about. How can we guarantee that everyone advantages from this expertise that is going to make a few firms awesomely highly effective and awesomely wealthy?
And that is tremendous if everyone else advantages from it. However when you’ve got a bunch of individuals or a number of individuals getting actually wealthy, actually highly effective on the expense of everybody else, you are going to have a a lot larger mess than now we have at present.
And so hopefully, by writing about it, by you speaking about it, finally Congress, enterprise leaders, academics, everybody will begin fascinated by how can we equip everybody to make this shift? We will do that. I imagine that we will do it, however not by ignoring it, proper?
SCARBOROUGH: Proper. And I imply, hear, and for youthful Individuals who’re making an attempt to determine why they are not getting jobs, you may blame Somalians if you wish to blame Somalians. It is horrible so that you can be blaming Somalians, however I do know you might have political leaders which can be telling you, you are not getting jobs due to Somalians. You are not getting jobs due to Mexicans. You are not getting jobs as a result of individuals are coming from India and so they’re getting H-1B visas. I perceive. I perceive. That is what you hear in your feeds. That is what you see in your feeds on a regular basis.
That is merely not the case. The issue proper now’s, particularly proper now over the previous 12 months to 18 months, you are not getting jobs out of faculty proper now,
as a result of as Jim VandeHei and Axios has [sic, have] reported, and different individuals have reported, CEOs are frozen. They’re saying, we’re not going to fireplace individuals. However with this AI expertise, we do not have to rent anyone new. And we will simply do away with our workforce by attrition. That is what they’re pondering proper now.
So that you blame the Somali eight states over from you. If that makes you are feeling higher, that is not going to repair something. And it is actually bigoted.So it is best to truly look what the true drawback is. And perceive, you might have individuals in Washington, D.C. that won’t stand as much as tech monopolists. They won’t stand as much as the billionaires that run this economic system. They won’t stand as much as the very people who find themselves going to get richer and richer on AI and depart you and your pals and your era additional and additional behind. It is that straightforward.
I imply, hear, you may maintain getting distracted by issues they’re making an attempt to get you to distract on. Effectively, Washington retains passing tax cuts and retains passing legal guidelines and retains refusing to do the issues they knew, do, have to do to interrupt up tech monopolies.
When you do not wish to deal with that, if that is too onerous so that you can examine, I imply, it should not be. You are in faculty, for God’s sake. , then that is your drawback.
