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Charles Hugh Smith's Substack · Aug 21, 2026

The New "Haves" and "Have-Nots": Those Who Depend on AI-Soma and Those Who Think for Themselves

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There is no substitute for mastery. AI is not mastery, it is mimicry. And depending on mimicry as a replacement for real thinking is the path to catastrophic collapse.

I narrate key points in my post “The New ‘Haves’ and ‘Have-Nots’: The Difference Isn’t What You Think.

The New "Haves" and "Have-Nots": The Difference Isn't What You Think

You’ll have to forgive my wordplay here: when I say The difference between the new “Haves” and the “Have-Nots” Isn’t What You Think, I am referring to money. But I’m also referring to thinking itself: the real difference between the new “Haves” and the “Have-Nots”

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