The real question is no longer how to adapt, but how a society will sustain itself when human labor is no longer needed to create value. This is unprecedented. It is not about learning a new programming language or moving from paper to Excel. AI, despite being just software that uses statistics extraordinarily well and learns and self-corrects, is not merely a better tool, it behaves as a cognitive substitute. For the first time, we compete against something that does not tire, does not charge, learns faster, and scales infinitely.

This breaks the adaptation myth. Adapting worked when the machine needed humans. Now the opposite is true. The rhetoric of retrain and adapt is ideological, not technical. It serves to reassure governments, companies, and workers, but it does not describe reality. There is no place for millions of “adapted” people when the system no longer needs them.