The Cost of being Average

Good Morning,Two stories today work the same question from opposite ends: what’s worth paying for once competence is free? Fast Company makes the blunt case that average-quality work — the reliable professional output most careers are built on — now carries close to zero market value (Fast Company). Nature takes up the other half, asking whether a machine that has mastered competence could ever produce the leap that produced relativity (Nature). If the answer stays no, the prem