If AI really does make intelligence abundant, that’s not the end of work; it’s the beginning of whatever economy you get when intelligence is a near‑free input. We already built an entire ecosystem around people filming 90‑second monologues. That wasn’t “real work” in any traditional sense, yet it now supports ad markets, creator tools, agencies, editors, thumbnail designers, and entire platforms. The point isn’t that short‑form video is profound. It’s that when we cheapen a capability, humans are extremely good at inventing new, sometimes ridiculous, but economically real roles around it.