Economist Daniel Rock's future 'paradox': human labor may beat cheaper machines
danielrock · x · 2026-11-08
AI labor economist Daniel Rock conjectures a future "paradox": even once machines outperform humans on many tasks, it may still be easier for a human to do a given economically valuable task than a machine — deployment costs, not raw capability, will decide who does the work.
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