The video just raised an unsettling possibility: that the very skill you’re trying to protect from AI might be “illth” — wealth that degrades. Ruskin’s controversial idea flips the AI conversation entirely. Instead of asking how to compete with flawless machines, he asks whether flawlessness was ever valuable. The twist waiting on the other side of this letter answers the panic not with reassurance, but with a redefinition of value that might change what you decide to spend your time on.
