AI Exposes the Economy's Inefficiency: The Real Threat Is Getting Paid for Mediocrity
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-11-07
Quoting a viral thread about how much of the economy runs on human incompetence — days-long email replies, hundreds of dollars for 30 seconds of work, people who don't understand their own jobs — TinfoilTricorn argues that normalized inefficiency persisted only because humans were the only option. Now AI is the alternative, and the real existential threat may be to the business model of being mediocre and getting paid anyway.
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