AI Era Will Reassess Scarcity
r0ck3t23 · x · 2026-07-19
This is a strong-opinion long post, with the core argument: AI and robots will drive labor costs close to zero, thereby reassessing society's scarcity assumptions.
The author expands along this logic:
- Industries like retirement, insurance, banking, healthcare, and housing are all built on the premise that 'future resources will still be expensive.'
- If AI truly brings large-scale abundance, then the institutions and business models built around scarcity will be rewritten.
- The post also interprets recent government takedowns of some AI models as 'self-protective regulation,' arguing that the real risk is not AI failure but the redistribution of power after AI succeeds.
Overall, it's a typical AGI-era macro narrative: not discussing a specific model, but how AI might change economic and social structures.
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