In the AI era, the scarcest thing may no longer be ability, but meaning. Technology will continuously eliminate the scarcity of knowledge, efficiency, and resources, but it cannot replace a person’s unique lived experience, feelings, and perspective. In information theory, it is said that information comes from “unexpectedness”; the more homogeneous things are, the less new information there is. Likewise, in a world where everyone has become the same standardized template, it is difficult to produce anything truly new. So what can never really be replaced is not standardized ability, but the parts that cannot be copied—what you have experienced, what you love, what you suffer, and how you understand the world. Many people desperately try to correct themselves into “the right person,” only to gradually lose their real selves. In truth, you are different from others—not only in terms of advantages, but more likely in terms of your value in existence, because what the world truly lacks is never something that can be copied, but unique and specific human lives.

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