Why you should care about the rising economy of algorithms

In 2016, a Reddit user made a confession. FiletOfFish1066 had automated all of the work tasks and spent around six years “doing nothing”. While the original post seems to have disappeared from Reddit, there are numerous reports about the admission. The original poster suggested that he (all the stories refer to FiletOfFish1066 as male) spent about 50 hours doing “real work”. The rest —…