You’re watching your own replacement get built, and you’re entertained. In 1863 Samuel Butler, warned us that we were producing our own successor. People laughed for a hundred and sixty years but they aren’t laughing now. An economy is nothing more than a loop: labor -> wages -> demand -> labor. Nothing breaks the loop. It just quietly stops routing through people the way a river stops routing through a town. The way a volcanic island breaks away and separates two species of finches. The current tech stack isn’t the final one but it doesn’t matter. It’s good enough to build the next one, and the next one. That was the only threshold that ever mattered, and it’s behind us. The model writes the code. The model reviews the code. A human still clicks “approve,” and everyone knows the click is ceremonial. We are just acting as the notary of our own extinction. Post-labor means post-consumer. You’re being priced out of everything that matters: GPUs, copper, electricity from the top down and the bottom up. Soon those two waves meet in the middle. And trust me… there’s no bubble. A bubble is a pricing error inside a functioning system. This is the system concluding its purpose. The prices are working perfectly. The market is allocating resources efficiently and that’s what should bother you. Watch the people near the levers, guarding the gates. They’re burning their reputations formed over decades, torching their alliances, and grabbing everything that isn’t bolted down sprinting for the exits. You don’t burn assets you think have a future. You do it when you realize it was all mirage and you’re the last one holding the hot potato. They’re not trying to get rich anymore they’re trying to buy a permanent stake in the machine before stakes stop going up for sale. Soon the loop closes, and someone in a very nice room will look out at over eight billion people with no economic function and ask a genuinely novel question: “What are they for?” I won’t be in the room when it’s answered. Neither will you. We were never in the room to begin with because we are the problem. But don’t worry about losing sleep over this, it’s going to become harder to find a reason to wake up soon.
