Researcher's paradox: if AI makes everyone unemployed, who pays for tokens?
prajdabre · x · 2026-11-12
Researcher prajdabre offers a sharp counterintuitive take: AI companies have no advantage in automating people into redundancy — if most people become unemployed, who will pay for tokens?
One line captures the economic paradox of the AI automation wave: token revenue ultimately depends on employed customers, so the industry's business interests conflict with wholesale human replacement.
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