AI has made knowledge—the ability to produce information—cheap and accessible. The new currency is wisdom: knowing what matters, where to focus, and how to find purpose. This shifts the focus of work and education from learning facts to developing critical thinking, empathy, and judgment.

The coming economic shift won't create a simple rich-poor divide. It will create a new four-tiered social structure based on two key traits: judgment and entrepreneurial ability. The majority who lack both will be left economically non-viable.

As AI drives the cost of content creation to zero, the world floods with 'average' material. In this environment, the most valuable and scarce skill becomes 'taste'—the ability to identify, curate, and champion high-quality, commercially viable work. This elevates the role of human curators over pure creators.

As AI automates technical and mundane tasks, the economic value of those skills will decrease. The most critical roles will be leaders with high emotional intelligence whose function is to foster culture and manage the human teams that leverage AI. 'Human skills' will become the new premium in the workforce.

As AI commoditizes the 'how' of building products, the most critical human skills become the 'what' and 'why.' Product sense (knowing ingredients for a great product) and product taste (discerning what’s missing) will become far more valuable than process management.

AI is commoditizing knowledge by making vast amounts of data accessible. Therefore, the leaders who thrive will not be those with the most data, but those with the most judgment. The key differentiator will be the uniquely human ability to apply wisdom, context, and insight to AI-generated outputs to make effective decisions.

Capitalism values scarcity. AI's core disruption is not just automating tasks, but making human-like intellectual labor so abundant that its market value approaches zero. This breaks the fundamental economic loop of trading scarce labor for wages.

As AI makes it incredibly easy to build products, the market will be flooded with options. The critical, differentiating skill will no longer be technical execution but human judgment: deciding *what* should exist, which features matter, and the right distribution strategy. Synthesizing these elements is where future value lies.