Are we in the middle of a modern day gold rush? | Cost of Living

From CBC News.

Why Canadians are choosing to pay out of pocket for minor car accidents rather than make an insurance claim. Also, with gold prices reaching historic highs, more people are channeling their inner prospector. They’re combing through thrift stores, estate sales — even riverbeds. And with tech optimists and doomsayers predicting wildly different things from artificial intelligence, we talk to an AI realist who says it will be transformative (but just not yet).

00 – Intro
01:59 – To claim or not to claim, that is the (car insurance) question
11:30 – The gold rush in thrift stores
16:38 – What if AI turns out to be just…meh?

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