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contribute to the local economy.

促进了当地经济。

But now piracy involving illegal streaming services as well as file-sharing costs the US economy about $30 billion in lost revenue a year and some 250,000 jobs, estimates the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center.

但据美国商会全球创新政策中心估计，如今涉及非法流媒体服务和文件共享的盗版每年让美国经济损失约300亿美元收入和约25万个工作岗位。

In her new book Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be, Diane Coyle, an economist at Cambridge University, argues that the digital economy requires new ways of thinking about progress.

剑桥大学经济学家黛安·科伊尔在其新书《齿轮与怪兽：经济学是什么，又应该是什么》中指出，数字经济需要以新的方式来思考进步。

“Whatever we mean by the economy growing, by things getting better, the gains will have to be more evenly shared than in the recent past,” she writes.

她写道：“无论我们所说的经济增长、情况变好指的是什么，收益都必须比近年来分配得更加均衡。”

“An economy of tech millionaires or billionaires and gig workers, with middle-income jobs undercut by automation, will not be politically sustainable.”

“一个由科技百万富翁或亿万富翁与零工劳动者构成、中等收入工作被自动化削弱的经济，在政治上是不可持续的。”

Not only will this foster political and social unrest, but it could, as Coyle suggests, hold back the sorts of AI technologies needed for regional economies to grow.

这不仅会助长政治和社会动荡，而且正如科伊尔所指出的，还可能阻碍地区经济增长所需的那类人工智能技术的发展。