When automation frees up a worker's time, that time gets reallocated to higher-value human work the AI cannot do, so automation expands opportunity rather than simply replacing people.

Greze argues that a worker saved 20% of their time isn't idle — they spend it on higher-value, harder-to-automate work, so automation creates more opportunity for high-value human work. ✦ AI generated

Jean-Denis Greze · Platformer · 2026-08-14 · original ↗

It's not like they're on vacation for the 20 percent of their time that they've saved that week. There are plenty of things they could do that would make them a better executive assistant. So now they're doing more of that kind of work — and that work is by definition not something the AI can do. Over time, the automation just gives us more opportunity to do the things that are higher value in the human economy.

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