An hour of compute now costs less than an hour of minimum-wage labor
GregKamradt · x · 2026-11-03
Greg Kamradt amplifies Will Manidis's observation that an hour of compute has just become cheaper than an hour of minimum-wage labor — a symbolic crossover point in the economics of AI, where compute is now undercuts even the cheapest human labor on pure cost.
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