Who pays for AI subscriptions if models take everyone's jobs?
Whattheduckying · reddit · 2026-10-18
A Reddit discussion poses a paradox: if frontier models act like a virus competing with humans for jobs, nobody will have income left to pay for subscriptions. The author argues OpenAI, Anthropic and peers therefore have no real incentive to replace jobs — no jobs means no subscription revenue, so the business model itself constrains AI-driven displacement.
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