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If AI can do the work, what exactly are we being paid for?

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I’ve been thinking about this less as an “AI will replace jobs” question and more as a “what actually makes someone valuable at work?” question. For a lot of white-collar jobs, our value has traditionally been tied to execution. We write the report, clean up the spreadsheet, pull the data, make the…

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  1. 2026-08-24 04:09 · r/AI_Agents
    If AI can do the work, what exactly are we being paid for?

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