Cutting 4000 jobs while the stock price skyrockets | In the AI era, human value is being rewritten, what should you understand?

Jack Dorsey sent a letter to shareholders announcing that his company Block is cutting over 4000 jobs, reducing the total number of employees from 10,000 to less than 6,000.

The reason is just a few words: "Smart tools have changed the meaning of building and operating a company."

The astonishing thing is: that night, the stock price rose by 24%.

So are humans really starting a countdown to being replaced by AI?

Before the industrial age, people relied on physical strength;

During the industrial age, people relied on skills;

In the information age, people relied on knowledge;

What about the AI era?

If even the abilities of "decision-making, creation, expression" are gradually replaced, humans will face a question for the first time: your value exists, no longer defined by "what you can do."

In fact, it's not that we will be replaced by AI, but rather that psychologically, we might begin to struggle with entering a kind of nihilism.

Honestly, I feel that such an era will be a very intense shock to the psychological structure of humanity.

Science fiction writer Liu Cixin has described an extreme possibility of civilization evolution in his works:

When productivity becomes powerful enough, most people no longer need to participate in production.

They are provided for, free from worries about food and clothing, yet they completely lose the sense of contribution to this system. They are not laborers, not creators, just passive, existing consumers.

This is the extreme version found in science fiction. But it touches on the feeling: "Does my existence still have meaning in this system? Am I dispensable in this system?"

The real danger is not being "provided for," but losing the "self-narrative."

Once a person is no longer needed, no longer expected, no longer relied upon, if they lack an internal narrative, they will directly enter a state of emptiness.

So is it possible that the core capability of the future is whether we can build our own "meaning system"? This is why I have been posting content recently, urging everyone to focus more on self-awareness, to read and think, and to relax, rather than becoming overly anxious.

Because the true watershed of the AI era is not: who can use AI

But: who knows "what they want to do with AI"

That is, the three points I mentioned before:

1️⃣ What problems do you solve

2️⃣ What judgment and creativity do you possess

3️⃣ Do you have the ability to continuously provide value

These three points essentially answer an ultimate question: when the world no longer needs you, do you still want to actively make yourself needed?

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