You know what I realized about Ai images in your marketing? It sends out the message that you've got no budget. It's the digital equivalent of wearing an obviously fake Chanel bag. Your whole brand immediately appears feeble and impoverished.” - Del Walker.

This points to the heart of why generative AI hurts in the long-run: it’s a way of producing writing without understanding. Writing is a craft. When we “write” the paper with AI, we do so without any understanding of the natures of words, ourselves, or other people, or how to connect these things reliably to produce good outcomes. Aping writing with generative AI is an automated knack. It’s flattery, not wisdom.

We don’t need to get rid of capitalism, we’ve already done that. We need to bring sound money, and with it the possibility of a capitalist economy, back again.