Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Roman Kireev
“The real scandal of our time is not that artificial intelligence is replacing human labor. The scandal is that so much of that labor was misallocated to begin with. AI is not the killer — it is the coroner. For decades, vast portions of the workforce have been diverted away from productive enterprise into roles sustained not by consumer demand, but by the state: subsidized credit, regulatory protection, government contracts, and legal coercion. Entire departments and job functions endured not because they created value, but because they were politically entrenched and institutionally shielded from market forces. This was never sustainable.” (02/23/26)