A child is the last non-automatable good, argues viral tweet on automation economics
l4rz · x · 2026-10-12
The author argues that in an era when everything made on machine time gets cheaper every year, goods made of irreducible human hours only go up in value — and child-rearing is the purest case: a good made of nothing but years of its parents' time. A philosophical take on value in the automation age worth discussing.
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