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==== This belief usually comes from one of four places: ====

===== AI threatens: =====
* Certain jobs
* Certain skills
* Certain identities

So people want it to fade, like:
* NFTs
* Metaverse hype
* Web3 buzzwords

But AI isn’t a speculative asset — it’s labor.

Labor demand doesn’t vanish.

===== The internet had: =====
* A dot-com crash
* Followed by Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix

AI is similar:
* Many companies die
* A few become infrastructure
* Everything else reorganizes around them

The crash (if/when it happens) clears excess — it doesn’t erase the tech.

===== This was the strongest skeptical argument. =====

But the economics already show:
* Costs are falling
* Models are more efficient
* Revenue scales faster than inference cost
* Even today, operations are likely profitable at scale

Expensive technologies don’t disappear — they get cheaper and spread.

That’s how:
* Electricity
* Computers
* Cloud
* GPUs
* Smartphones worked.

===== People point to: =====
* Hallucinations
* Errors
* Weird failures

That’s fair — but irrelevant long-term.

Early cars:
* Broke constantly
* Were dangerous
* Had no roads

They still replaced horses.

Why? Because they were directionally better.

AI already is.