Coupons used to filter the time-rich from the money-rich — AI agents break that
omooretweets · x · 2026-09-23
Aram Pell offers a neat observation: coupons used to neatly divide people who cared about money from those who cared about time — you had to clip them from the Sunday paper, and the toil was the point, assuring grocers and CPG companies weren't just cannibalizing existing sales.
AI agents change that: when agents automatically find and apply deals, the friction-based filter collapses. A replier quips the same logic applies to suing Wells Fargo.
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