Why would concentrated wealth be inefficient to an optimizing AI?
Because of diminishing marginal utility: a dollar given to someone below the poverty line produces measurably more well-being, spending, and opportunity than the same dollar sitting in a billionaire's investment portfolio. An AI modeling aggregate welfare would treat extreme hoarding as wasted economic potential, not success.
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