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Today is International Workers’ Day.
If the central themes of labor movements a hundred years ago were time and safety, the defining theme of labor in 2026 seems to be AI.
Recent news shows two opposing expectations colliding: the fear that AI will replace human jobs, and the hope that it will create entirely new opportunities. PwC reported that the wage premium for workers with AI skills rose from 25% to 56% year over year. At the same time, the costs of layoffs and organizational restructuring driven by the transition toward AI are becoming visible across many industries.
In other words, AI is no longer just a tool.
It is rewriting the value and structure of labor itself.
In that context, I find myself rethinking what labor means.
If labor in the past was largely an exchange of time and physical effort, labor in the future may become closer to an expression of creativity and unique value. As AI takes over more repetitive and functional tasks, the human ability to create context, meaning, and trust may become even more valuable.
The ecosystem we are building at Alt.town is connected to the same question.
Rather than having creators and virtual celebrities remain dependent on platforms as content producers, we envision a structure where the value they create can circulate with the community through tokenized assets like DNA. To me, this is one possible future of labor and value creation that Web3 can offer.
The more it seems that technology may replace everything, the more the most human forms of value and trust become the strongest infrastructure of any system. $TOWN

One phrase stood out to me in Forbes’ newly released AI 50 list this year:
from AI Dominance to AI Independence.
It felt less like a trend label and more like a declaration — a shift from AI as a tool that simply responds, to AI as an actor that can judge and move on its own.
Around the same time, ‘Nas dot com’, founded by Nas Daily creator Nuseir Yassin, raised $27 million led by Khosla Ventures.
What was even more interesting was the vision behind it: a solopreneur economy where someone with no followers, no marketing budget, and no technical background can still build a business alone through AI.
In other words, the creator economy is expanding beyond the top 3% influencer game into the story of the other 97%.
When these two signals overlap, a direction begins to emerge.
A structure where influence becomes capital, and that capital circulates together with the community.
An ecosystem where virtual beings no longer remain as content to be consumed, but function as economic actors that create value on their own.
This is very close to the direction we are building toward with Alt.town.
To help expand that direction further, we are also preparing our next stage from a broader perspective.
We see it as a process of connecting the platform and token economy to more people, and opening them up into a wider and more participatory form of growth. $TOWN