A bunch of people have written me back saying this was the best newsletter I have ever sent (flattering) ... so here it is for those who don't subscribe: AI Is Not a Labor Crisis. It Is a Meaning Crisis.
You know we are entering an agentic business world when billion dollar startups “enter credit card” forms hard fail to scroll / cannot be operated on iOS. Either that or the hole thing is just fraud lol.
Star Trek assumes solve energy (near-free, via fusion/antimatter) + solve intelligence/automation (replicators, computers) → scarcity disappears → humans become explorers/self-actualizers, money is obsolete.
The actual failure in the premise, scarcity of positional goods