For most of industrial history, "intelligence" was the scarcest and most expensive resource. To get a legal contract reviewed, a codebase audited, or a marketing strategy drafted, you had to hire a skilled human. This created a linear relationship between growth and headcount: to do twice as much "thinking," you needed twice as many "thinkers." We are now entering the era of the AI-Human Cost Inversion . Recent data shows that while a human expert costs between $15 and $60 per hour, an advanced AI agent performs equivalent information-processing tasks for as little as $0.10 to $0.50 per hour. When the cost of running an AI agent falls below the cost of a human worker, we don't just get "faster humans." We get a different kind of economy entirely. 1. From "Service" to "Utility" Historically, professional services (law, accounting, consulting) were rival goods . If a consultant was working on your project, they couldn'...
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