binarybits pushes back: consumers won't buy the stuff AI automation could produce
binarybits · x · 2026-09-19
In the ongoing AI growth debate, binarybits replies to bshlgrs that companies will produce less than AI-abundance models predict because consumers won't want that much stuff — a demand-side counter to claims that automation will yield massive measured material output.
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