Who runs the machine?

The world is the way it is... because capitalists needed humans to run machines.

That's why they built the concept of jobs, and schools, and management and everything, that's why we are the way we are.

And over the 3-4 centuries, even though machines got better, you still needed humans to operate them. White-collar jobs became mainstream, but you still needed humans to run machines.

Now, for the first time, machines are running machines. Claude code, agents, etc., do not NEED a human.

If you have a job spec, the machine can do the job.

Where does that leave the humans?

First, we never wanted to be the machine operator, defined by the spec for the job. The culture forced us into the box.

Two, there's a part of us that has always wanted to break through, to create, to innovate, to build art, to express.

The world needs connection and expression more than ever, unique human experiences, and it is willing to pay for it. And machines are cheaper than ever now to leverage to bring those creations forward.

The hard part is to un-train ourselves of the job mindset, where we wait for someone else to give us the spec.