The prevailing narrative evaluates the risk of this boom almost entirely through the lens of technological viability. We argue the exact opposite: the technology will likely continue to deliver genuine productivity gains, but the macroeconomy may simply fail to absorb its success.

For the past century, human cognition has functioned as the ultimate binding constraint on global progress. As a commodity, it was inherently unscalable: to organize code, synthesize legal frameworks, or manage complex systems, one had to procure human labor on a 1:1 time-value basis. We are currently witnessing the end of that era. The emergence of high-reasoning models signals the first true Industrialization of Cognition, a structural shift that is rewriting the foundation