The Shock We Should Have Seen Coming

Now, you might think we were blindsided, that what happened in that Ohio warehouse

was a complete shock, but the archives prove otherwise. The data was practically screaming at us

as early as 2024. We just chose not to look at the numbers, because the erasure of human value didn't

begin with our hands. It began with our minds. The first piece of evidence was

the collapse of what they called cognition cost. In 2023, expert human thought

was still a premium product. A lawyer to review a contract? That might cost

you $500 an hour. A programmer? 100. But then the AI models arrived,

and by 2025, the cost to process millions of words of information, enough to digest