All you have to do to disprove this claim is look outside.

Then train your model elsewhere and size it as appropriate for the runtime environment.

If that really isn't an option, then yes ML/AI isn't for you in this case.

You mean the warehouse that was built to code and was hit by a tornado?

Is Bezos supposed to use his billions to build some sort of machine to control the weather?

Good thing the US already has the most progressive tax code in the developed world, and what you described above already happens.

Nope, they can just buy one of the millions of less expensive homes that are available.