🚨 Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko fires back at Bernie Sanders’ AI jobs warning, arguing markets and DeFi—not central planning—create prosperity 🚨 Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko publicly rejected Bernie Sanders’ warning that AI and robotics could wipe out millions of American jobs. Yakovenko instead defended markets, capital formation, and DeFi, saying Sanders was focused on hypothetical sci-fi problems rather than real ones. 🔑 Key points 🔹 Sanders argued Congress has done nothing to protect workers who could lose jobs to AI and robotics, and tied the issue to political money in super PACs. 🔹 Yakovenko responded harshly on X, dismissing Sanders’ framing and saying he is “completely f’ing useless at solving any real problems.” 🔹 Yakovenko argued that capital is not the same as hoarded wealth and said surplus production is what raises living standards. 🔹 He claimed that if 500 more trillionaires were created, global living standards could roughly double, assuming productive output expands. 🔹 Yakovenko also tied the debate back to crypto, saying any profitable market that can be built as a smart contract will be rebuilt repeatedly, which he framed as the point of DeFi. 🔹 The article notes Solana was trading around $65.36 and up nearly 6% at press time. 🎯 Bottom line: Yakovenko is making the classic crypto-libertarian argument that AI and markets create abundance, while politicians focus on fear. https://t.co/2gMIJNqHeD