What happens when intelligence is no longer scarce?
AI may change more than how we work. It could change why companies exist, what humans sell, who owns productive capacity and what society considers valuable.
The neo-cottage economy
An emerging model in which AI makes individuals and very small teams economically viable units of production at a scale that once required larger firms.
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HumainX starts with three questions that cut beneath the usual debate about AI and jobs.
What becomes scarce?
If knowledge, analysis, software and intelligence become abundant, where does economic value migrate?
Who owns what remains valuable?
Does AI create millions of empowered producers, or concentrate productive power in a handful of platforms?
Why will anyone pay anyone else?
If everyone has powerful AI, merely possessing intelligence cannot remain a competitive advantage.
From cottage to factory to corporation. Then what?
The Neo-Cottage Revolution
The Industrial Revolution pulled production into organizations. Could AI push it back toward the individual?
AI will reduce the minimum economically viable size of many knowledge-based businesses.
But the theory breaks almost immediately: if everyone has AI, why does the customer need the AI-enabled individual at all?
The rest depends on what we discover.
HumainX is just getting started.
New arguments, counterarguments, reader predictions and evidence as we work toward understanding the economy of 2036.