The cost of creation in digital space is collapsing to zero in this wave (following cost of consumption going to zero in the previous wave), which means everything digital loses value except for digital scarcity (blockchain rails), forcing a complete rethinking of digital economics and IP

Hysteresis (irreversible state change) is the truly scary part of AI displacement: once labor is displaced and infrastructure rebuilt, you cannot go back; people fired don't get rehired when economy recovers because robots are better—this is a one-way door with no reversal

Humans cannot replicate AI capability through work volume because AI can process millions of words while humans are limited by biological input/output bandwidth—no amount of human effort can close the gap when the constraint is information processing capacity rather than work ethic.