Everybody's talking about AI. But there's one thing I haven't heard anybody say yet, and it's been living in my head for weeks... so now we're gonna talk about it.

Every time technology is supposed to make our lives easier, it doesn't actually give us our time back. It just raises the bar on what's expected.

The washing machine didn't free women from domestic labor. It just gave us higher laundry standards and overflowing closets.

Calculators turned a highly skilled profession into a barely-above-minimum-wage job. Cars restructured our entire society so you basically can't function without one.

And now AI is doing the exact same thing.

In this episode I'm going rogue a little (okay, a lot) and talking about the pattern I can't unsee, why the productivity gain almost never goes to the workers, and what this actually means for you as a local food business owner.

Spoiler: you're in a better position than you think.

In this episode:

• Medieval peasants, hunter gatherers, and why we probably need way more leisure than we're getting
• The washing machine, calculators, and cars as case studies in raised baselines
• Where AI productivity gains actually go (hint: not to you, unless...)
• Why your handmade food and real human presence are going to become more valuable, not less
• How to use AI as a tool without letting it use you

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