An Era Where Only the Top Can Survive

In fact, human society has been evolving this way all along, where all work is done only by the top-tier people. Others are not incapable of doing it, but because their efficiency isn't high enough, or their quality isn't good enough, the value produced either decreases or the quality drops—note, low and poor are relative terms, not implying laziness, but because others produce more efficiently, your value for the same amount of time becomes less; as the quality of what others produce improves, your output becomes worse, because people's standards for "good" have been raised.

Meanwhile, new needs have emerged: after being fed and clothed, people began to pursue spiritual enjoyment, leading to the development of the gaming industry, entertainment industry, and a desire to see the world—don't think these needs existed inherently; they only appeared after basic necessities were satisfied. Since there are needs, they can be met through providing these needs to make money, and new industries emerge. Human society becomes richer and richer this way.

What is the starting point here? It is to eliminate providers with lower productivity, so that most people's needs are better met by fewer people— the more a technology eliminates, the more powerful it is. Remember this point: for example, there are many people delivering food, couriering, or driving for ride-hailing services today; in the past, there were many small vendors and street stalls. The technology that can replace them all is the most powerful and most worth investing in.

The Industrial Revolution eliminated the most basic physical laborers; the Internet Revolution eliminated low-level mental workers; the AI Revolution even discards high-level mental workers—directly distilling and replicating you, asking a copy of you to handle things, no need for you anymore.

No physical effort needed, no mental effort needed—what does the AI era require? Two words: trust.

You can distill me, or distill Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Elon Musk, Confucius, and all others, but this is only the lowest-cost option for ordinary people—human evolution is a process of constantly eliminating old productivity, but what replaces it is always something "for the majority," lowering these costs. But if you need higher quality, better services, more precise answers, you can only turn to the top-tier—like a world-class artisan hand-sewn bag, an experienced expert providing college application advice, or a master tailoring an investment plan for you. That’s why there are Hermès, Zhang Xuefeng, Buffett, Rolls-Royce, and so on.

Why can everyone replicate them, yet they remain irreplaceable? Because when it comes to "matters of great importance," people still only want the best, the most refined, the most accurate— you can never guarantee that a replicated item is exactly the same as the original, because the original is constantly evolving. Yesterday’s good stuff may not hold up today, what if it changes? For someone or a field that is always progressing, you can never fully keep up and produce an identical clone; a tiny mistake can lead to a huge divergence.

Therefore, the most valuable thing in this era is trust. Anyone’s "total" knowledge reserve is insignificant in front of AI, but when making decisions, we only need two words: trust—100% trust in a person or a thing. You can also call this trust "IP" or "brand."

Thus, the AI era is not about replacing everyone, but about replacing mediocrity across all fields, forcing people to find the niche where "they are the top," and continue to expand the richness of human society. We don't need 100 million gas station employees, 100 million chefs, or 100 million white-collar workers skilled in Excel. As long as you can continuously prove that you are the best in any field where people have needs, you will have pierced the deepest moat of this era. #比特币突破7.9万美元