We are approaching an economic inversion point. For decades, elites like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos have justified their status through ‘intelligence arbitrage…’ they were simply better at managing complexity and logistics than everyone else.
But what happens when artificial general intelligence makes high-level strategy and logistics a cheap, abundant commodity? I’m staring at the future… and the [market value] of being “smart” is about to drop off a cliff…
The Death of the “Smart” Boss
Currently, elites exist to manage complexity. They compress strategy and execute solutions (e.g., Amazon getting packages to you faster).
The Shift: In an ai world, every person will have an “agentic chief of staff” smarter than every PhD researcher combined.
The Result: Strategic competence will no longer be a differentiator. When execution becomes costless and everyone has infinite agentic bandwidth, the ability to organize logistics is no longer a path to wealth or power. Frankly, anyone with enough time and energy can become a king…
The New Currency: Vision and Liability
If competence is free, what becomes scarce? Accountability and vision.
Vision & Values: Power shifts to people who can articulate the why and convince people to follow the vision… almost sounds like the anti-christ…
Human Responsibility: The future elite isn’t the person who knows how to do it (the AI knows that). It is the person willing to be responsible if/when it goes wrong… so much of my daily videos talk about the gray between human-computer responsibility.
In a world of infinite machine intelligence, the only true luxury left is responsibility. The future belongs not to those who can process data, but to those willing to bear the burden of consequences of compute in action.
I like this a lot.
ai forces personal responsibility.
I love it.
Human flourishing begins here.
All the best,
ps