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Eric Hovde: “Businesses start making more and more money because they've…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 08:53

You take the unemployment rate from 4.3 to 8.6. Folks, we're in a world of hurt. And by the way, you think wealth inequality is bad now, all sudden, Businesses start making more and more money because they've eliminated all the jobs. They're using AI and you're putting more and more Americans out. We'll have a revolution. So AI lives up to it, you're going to crater the whole financial system and have, you know, enormous amount Americans ready to pick up pitchforks. (08:53–08:57)

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