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SATURDAY, 29 AUGUST 1981
Every company now has an AI assistant.
It's the only member of staff nobody's asked to come in on Fridays, and the only one getting your job.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Scale your business. Currently it's you, a laptop, and your mum, who bought one…
- Treat yourself, they said. You did. Four times before lunch. Your pension felt every…
- You're ageing like a fine wine. Expensive, slightly sour, best kept in the dark,…
- Doom spending is buying a heated eye mask because the news was bad. The…
- Your financial advisor is a spreadsheet you opened once in January. It's been screaming…
- You're "chronically online". Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have…
- Scale your business. Currently it's you, a laptop, and your mum, who bought one…
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