When Competent Is Free, What Costs?

This Week’s Highlights:This week’s stories kept circling a question: what is worth paying for once competence is free? Fast Company declared — average work now carries almost no market value (Fast Company). But the counter-evidence arrived is all around us. Nature magazine asked whether AI could ever make an Einstein relativity-level discovery and suggested the gap is a creative leap no amount of data could produce (Nature). Students told The Walrus they miss the struggle that