No king from 100 years ago lived as well as most of us do today.

Not in medicine. Not in travel. Not in access to knowledge or entertainment.

I wasn’t born into royalty, yet I was less likely to die of childhood disease than any king back then. I’m less likely to die of tuberculosis now than they were.

King Kamehameha ruled Hawaii, but it would take him a week to circle the Big Island on horseback. Today, we do it in a car in a few hours.

Queen Christina of Sweden spent her wealth on importing books from around the world, and supported mathematicians or philosophers such as Descartes. Yet no amount of wealth back then could buy what we have now: instant access to experts, courses, and discussions from anywhere in the world. Not to mention all the books that can be ordered online directly to my door for quite cheap.

Kings enjoyed plays and jesters, yet they never got to watch Star Wars or the Avengers. They never had a stream of the world’s funniest and most interesting moments delivered to them daily, as we do on social media.

Automating Everyday Tasks

So what do today’s richest have that most of us don’t?

Does Bill Gates clean his own floors? Make his own food? Drive himself?

Autonomous task completion, be it sweeping, mopping, mowing, cooking, driving, etc etc, is of prime priority. Any task that the richest person in the world might pay someone else to do for them, ought to be automated, or made as easy as possible while still maintaining human oversight.

What Happens When Work Changes?

Some wealthy people aren’t too happy, but most of us wouldn’t say “no” to a lottery winning.

Well done AI is equal to us all winning the lottery.