Year 2030, and the world looks a bit wild. The American Super Intelligence (ASI) is basically a first-class citizen now, reporting straight to the President. Only top-level government agencies with clearance can actually talk to it, but it’s got a backdoor to literally any device connected to the internet. Meanwhile, private players like SuperIntelligenceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI handle the rest of us—giving the public their daily AI fixes while feeding data back to the ASI when requested.

Everyone’s got a subscription to at least one of these companies. But here’s the funny part: even though these robots can do literally every job better, faster, and cheaper, humans are still hanging around. Why? Because we actually want humans to do stuff for us.

Take ordering a pizza from Papa John’s, for example. There’s a robot that can bake it and drop it right on your porch in seconds. But people are purposefully clicking the option for human delivery. Sure, it costs an extra two bucks, but everyone knows they’re paying to keep another human afloat.

It’s the same story at supermarkets, grocery stores, farms, and butcher shops. We’ve got cheap, hyper-efficient robots that can run the whole show, but choosing human labor has become this quiet, voluntary choice. It’s like a boycott, but not entirely—we still let the AI do all the brutal, heavy lifting. The easy, face-to-face service jobs? Those are reserved for humans, purely by choice. Name a service job, and there’s definitely a robot that does it better, but we’re keeping humans around anyway.