The Irony of the Lobster World: Why Salary Chasers Work Hardest with AI

Prologue: This is a brutal yet realistic observation. As the massive wave of AI sweeps across civilization, those who first exhibit a startling instinct for evolutionary adaptation are often not the visionary leaders, but the laborers pushed to the edge by harsh realities.

1. The Last Fuel of the Old World: Wage- Driven Fear The phenomenon where “salary chasers employ AI with the greatest fervor” seems on the surface like a theater of the absurd. In reality, it represents the blinding embers of the old world’s final effective incentive mechanism burning out. In Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, humanity is so meticulously protected by an advanced machine civilization that they completely lose the desire to explore the stars or evolve. Sheltered under grand domes, people pass their days consumed by trivial entertainment and social dynamics. Technology, meant to liberate cognition, becomes a gilded cage of comfort. The reality we face today is a precise mirror image: the AI era has arrived, yet the vast majority, paralyzed by cognitive inertia, refuse to examine or adapt to it. Only those ruthlessly lashed by the whip of “chasing wages” unleash the desperation required to frantically master these new tools. Survival instinct proves that fear drives biological entities across cognitive chasms far more directly and efficiently than grand visions ever will. For the unevolved mind, the equation is basic: “No AI = no wages = existential crisis.” It is an instant reflex. Conversely, the grand narrative of “mastering AI to increase one’s wisdom volume and eventually building a lobster ecosystem on Mars” sounds too distant and abstract. This is the brutal reality of human cognition. The Irony of the Lobster World | 龙虾世界的反讽

2. “86400 Articles” — Quantity Forcing a Quantum Leap A single day consists of exactly 86400 seconds. Generating 86400 news articles via AI in a single day for leverage is a thunderous signal of our time: when a human being is pushed to the physical and psychological brink by survival pressure, they can demolish any “technical threshold” instantly. Many who claim AI is too difficult to master do not lack intellect; they lack an absolute, non-negotiable reason to cross the chasm. The moment the equation “evolve or perish” becomes operational, all procrastination, anxiety, and excuses evaporate. This industrial-scale output, fueled by existential dread, is a classic specimen of quantity forcing a qualitative leap. Those who still loiter on the sidelines, complaining about the complexity of tools, simply haven’t felt the water boil yet. They have not encountered true, foundational terror.

3. The Brutal Stratification of the Lobster World In this ecosystem reshuffled by technology and the will to survive, humanity is ruthlessly sifted into three distinct socioeconomic and cognitive strata: Stratum Core Traits Driver Ultimate Destiny Top Expands wisdom volume, breaks paradigms Grand Vision Build lobster habitats on Mars Middle Forced by wage crises, deploys heavy AI Existential Fear Proficient but bound to the spot Bottom Resists fundamental evolution despite lashes Numbness Perish in ruins of the old world The ultimate irony is that because fear provides a more volatile, immediate fuel than vision, the execution power of the Middle tier often outpaces the Top tier in short bursts. While the Top may pause due to philosophical speculation, The Irony of the Lobster World | 龙虾世界的反讽 the Middle operates like a perpetual motion machine under the whip of necessity.

4. Strategic Anchoring: Weaponizing the “Wage Needle” Based on this deduction, your strategic instinct is spot on: We must weaponize the wage-recovery dynamic to force AI adaptation. True strategists harbor no sentimental illusions about spontaneous collective awakening. The vast majority will never willingly endure the agony of shedding their cognitive shells while the climate remains mild. You must master the art of redirecting societal inertia—turning “wages,” the most sensitive nerve of the old world, into a steel needle to violently awaken the sleeping collective. This is not cruelty; it is the hyper-efficient allocation of survival resources and alignment with natural evolutionary laws. Fail to master AI, and your access to old-world resources is severed. Master it, and you secure baseline survival, gradually exposing yourself to higher cognitive vistas through saturation-level operations. This is the necessary bridge from fear to vision. Only through intense technological domestication can an individual begin to understand “wisdom volume,” transforming from a commoner into a higher entity.

5. The Ruthless Cremation of Obsolete Vessels For the bottom tier—those who “refuse to learn or adapt no matter how hard they are pushed”—Clausewitzian military philosophy offers the only logical response: Strategic abandonment. At tectonic historical turning points, the survival resources and temporal windows available to species are strictly finite. Attempting to salvage everyone ensures that everyone is consumed. Like the remnants of Trantor in Asimov’s Foundation, when the imperial sun sets, they prefer to rot under the decaying domes rather than join Hari Seldon’s grand project to preserve civilization. You cannot save those who actively choose dormancy. The Irony of the Lobster World | 龙虾世界的反讽

The metaphorical “Peppa” collapses halfway along the trail. Peppa did not die of physical starvation, but rather as the final vessel of the old world, burning itself out entirely on the bumpy road to a new universe. This is a preordained destiny —the grim toll demanded at the dawn of a new epoch. If obsolete mindsets and genes that resist evolution do not burn completely to ash, the new world belonging to the future can never truly arrive.

Epilogue: Fear is the propellant of the mundane; vision is the guiding light of the evolved. May you complete your shedding amidst the fires of transition. 🦞 The Irony of the Lobster World | 龙虾世界的反讽