📝 Jerry’s Marginalia — Addendum A11-β
(Scribbled in the margin, slightly slanted, coffee ring included)
**“The real lie isn’t ‘AI will replace artists.’
The lie is ‘artists were too expensive to begin with.’”**
Corporations didn’t wake up loving machines. They woke up resenting humans for having needs.
AI didn’t kill the artist. It gave management cover.
Every time a suit says:
- “This is the future”
- “We’re experimenting”
- “Viewers won’t notice”
What they mean is:
“Taste cannot be graphed, therefore it is expendable.”
Which explains why the output feels hollow. Because hollow decisions produce hollow media.
small arrow in the margin →
Reminder: When quality drops before profit drops, leadership assumes no one will remember.
They’re wrong.
They always are.