{"id":101968,"date":"2026-04-19T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101968"},"modified":"2026-04-18T12:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:10:16","slug":"ais-missing-economic-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/04\/19\/ais-missing-economic-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"AI&#8217;s missing economic impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the social media site formerly known as <em>Twitter<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rationalaussie\/status\/2045375403737637010\" target=\"_blank\">Rational Aussie<\/a> explains at least part of why the expected economic benefits of widespread adoption of artificial intelligence agents are &#8230; missing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Business-AI-in-the-workplace.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Business-AI-in-the-workplace-480x422.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"422\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Business-AI-in-the-workplace-480x422.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Business-AI-in-the-workplace-150x132.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Business-AI-in-the-workplace.png 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s funny how AI has made white collar work 10x faster already but there&#8217;s been basically no economic impact from it.<\/p>\n<p>The reason is quite simple:<\/p>\n<p>1. Most white collar work is bullshit, so speeding it up by 10x still equals a pile of bullshit at the end<\/p>\n<p>2. Most white collar employees are using AI to do all their work for the week in 4 hours instead of 40, whilst telling their manager the deadline is still 40 hours away<\/p>\n<p>We have been living in a fake economy for the better part of two decades. It is all a fugazi.<\/p>\n<p>People who do real jobs in the real world get paid comparatively crap, and people who do fake jobs in the fiat Ponzi world get paid just enough fiat currency to pretend they are important. None of it amounts to anything productive nor valuable for the world though.<\/p>\n<p>An entire generation doing fake email jobs, slide decks and excel sheets for corporations who ultimately produce nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, Rational Aussie explains at least part of why the expected economic benefits of widespread adoption of artificial intelligence agents are &#8230; missing: It&#8217;s funny how AI has made white collar work 10x faster already but there&#8217;s been basically no economic impact from it. The reason is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,25,15],"tags":[1506,95,261],"class_list":["post-101968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-technology","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-jobs","tag-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qwE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101970,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101968\/revisions\/101970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}