Sam Altman Is Not a Blithering Idiot (English Edition)

Many parts of all, and all parts of some, American cities that were thriving in 1950, have now fallen into chaos and ruin. Meanwhile, Palo Alto is full of beautiful young people adoring the perfectly antialiased individual subpixels of their new Retina iPads. Which of these phenomena is more relevant? Which is the narrative, which the distraction? What would Sam Altman say?