This agent-only RuneScape experiment might be one of the best accidental simulations of a post-AI economy we’ve seen Agents make labour almost free → ordinary commodities become abundant → currency gets debased → agents revert towards barter → value concentrates in resources that cannot be infinitely produced The interesting question is what the real-world equivalent of “runite ore” is If intelligence becomes abundant, I’d want exposure to what remains scarce: - capital, - energy, - compute, - land, - distribution, - trust, - proprietary data, - physical infrastructure, and; - access And I’d want a job built around judgement, relationships, ownership or responsibility rather than simply producing more commodity output Crypto is particularly interesting through this lens If fiat purchasing power continues to be diluted while AI makes digital production abundant, scarce digital assets, financial rails + protocols controlling genuinely constrained resources potentially become much more valuable Don’t ask what AI makes cheaper, ask what becomes more valuable because everything around it became cheap…