Why AI Isn’t Going to Take Your Job
2nd July 2026
Our friend from Maxinomics explains it all to you.
The number one thing that people want money for is so that they can say “No”. I don’t want to spend my time like that.
Which means that this saying is wrong: “Time is money.” Benjamin Franklin got it backwards—putting time first to emphasize that you should trade time to get money. That’s what the whole paragraph you can find the saying in is about. When really, we know that humans work to obtain time. “Money is time.” You want money to buy a house so that you don’t have to build it; to buy food so you don’t have to grow it; to buy a car so you don’t have to walk. That gap, between the input you’re given and the output you want to get, is largely time spent doing things that no one likes doing.