The Great Harvest is here, unfolding in real time while most people still believe they’re consumers, not crop.
Human value, once rooted in skill, agency, and labor, is being methodically extracted, deconstructed, and recomposed as the raw feedstock for machines that neither sleep nor care.
Every search query, every email, every idle scroll is an unpaid internship for an algorithm that will eventually render your own effort economically meaningless.
Billions of human actions, each one unique, personal, and fleeting, are silently scraped, warehoused, and fed into neural networks that learn not just how to mimic you, but how to predict, replace, and ultimately surpass you.
A new class of capitalists, who are the custodians of data, compute, and the models that shape reality... they simply have discovered the most profitable crop in history: the unwitting, unending river of human experience, willingly surrendered for convenience and fleeting dopamine.
This is a harvest without tractors or fields, waged at global scale, indifferent to nation or creed.
What’s being harvested is your attention and time, but additionally the substrate of meaning itself: taste, memory, intuition, even dissent.
Every interaction becomes a tradable asset in a market where the supply of “you” is functionally infinite, and your market-clearing price trends toward irrelevance.
This is much bigger than a labor crisis that people will make it out to be.
We are living through an existential, civilizational event.
For the first time, the average person is worth more as a training set than as a worker, citizen, or thinker.
The market has found a new equilibrium: human value as negative externality, data as collateral for the next turn of the speculative flywheel.
It's easy for people to call AI models tools for human progress but in reality they are extraction engines - refining, arbitraging, and compressing the last vestiges of human distinctiveness into synthetic capital.
The central banks of this era issue tokens of simulated relevance, redeemable for little more than fleeting engagement.
If you sense a hollowness to modern life, a growing irrelevance in the face of accelerating change, it’s not an illusion.
It’s the silent math of extraction at scale.
The more you share, the less you own.
The more you participate, the more you are liquefied for value you’ll never see.
There is no opt-out. Refusal itself becomes a data point, a variable for some future model.
The only path forward is sovereignty. Over your mind, your code, your capital.
Anything less, and you are the field, the fertilizer, and the yield.
Harvested in perpetuity.
Welcome to the era where human value is measured in its convertibility to machine relevance, and the only scarce asset left is the piece of yourself you refuse to give.
Buy Bitcoin and tether yourself to scarcity.
If Occupy Wall Street was about the "1%" who rigged the price of capital, Occupy AI is going to be about the "∞" that rigged the price of labor
My take on why
#OccupyAI will be more existential than we think, and what that means for the resurgence of the crypto manifesto👇