Opinion: Outsourcing Everything to AI Creates a Permanent Underclass
martyamark · x · 2026-08-01
The author argues that the public is thinking about the AI-era "underclass" completely wrong. What actually traps people is going "AI psycho"—outsourcing everything to agents and offloading strategy to AI, which destroys the ability to think independently. This is exactly what 99% of people will do.
To break through, you must learn to generate original ideas that an LLM could never produce. The way to do this is by doing what no one else is doing: reading books, writing your own notes, and having patience for the process.
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