The Mindset considers human beings so unnecessary, even burdensome, that the business plans for many startups are rejected if they can’t demonstrate that their operations will one day be fully automated. A few employees are fine while a company is getting going, but eventually all of those skills need to be automated in order for the company to “scale” infinitely. This is why Facebook wants AIs or—at worst—its users to monitor and tag offensive posts instead of paid human employees. Any solution that involves valuing human labor risks slowing things down.
