Post warns human labor may stop paying within three years as automation spreads
SuB8u · x · 2026-07-21
A quoted post argues that human labor may stop earning real money in roughly three years, once automation makes most work unprofitable.
- It frames the current period as a short-lived information asymmetry.
- The suggested response is to convert time into assets that survive the transition: bitcoin, hard assets, compute, energy, food production, and distribution.
- The reply turns that prediction into a sarcastic warning about the backlash against AI.
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