AI will lower headcount of the employed. Drastically. It’s amazing how many ways people have devised to talk around this. Yes, it probably won’t replace ALL people who work in X right away. It may even augment people and make them more productive. But in the mid-term totality of its effect, we will not have 3 billion employed people. Jobs will become incredibly rare which means we have to produce basic living goods and services and distribute them for free. Full stop. The end. With a cherry on top because this should be seen as a good thing but it isn’t, because people are terrified of breaking the no-free-lunch rule. It shatters their reality and they can’t tell up from down and they collapse into madness and ego-death.