Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

I'm Tired of Watching Smart Owners Buy Into the Fear

2 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Mike Andes challenges the prevailing narrative that artificial intelligence (AI) is a job‑killing boogeyman. He argues that every major technology—from the hoe to the tractor—has historically created more work and greater productivity rather than eliminating jobs. Andes critiques politicians and media that weaponize fears about soaring energy costs, environmental collapse, and losing an AI race to China, suggesting these narratives keep people anxious instead of encouraging innovation. Using the agricultural analogy, he illustrates how mechanization replaced back‑breaking labor with efficient tools, freeing humans to pursue more creative and complex problems. He concludes by urging society to embrace AI as another step in human evolution, focusing on creativity and solving bigger challenges rather than succumbing to panic.

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And AI is the bad boogeyman that's gonna come take all our jobs away. And that's somehow been the brand, when in reality every technology has brought more jobs and like, it just doesn't make sense. So like, we're all buying this fear. And so either A, you're gonna be the politician that is government going after everyone's fear, which is energy's gonna be crazy expensive, all of our wildlife is gonna get killed and we're not gonna have any green spaces. Uh, you're, you're gonna lose your job and we're gonna lose the AI. We're gonna lose the AI race to China. And all this fear gets us like so wound up versus being like every single technological revolution, we have figured out a way to solve better problems. And so like, do you want to go back to tilling the ground with a hoe to build, to be able to get food? Or do we just use this thinking tractor that will be a million times more efficient and you will be in an AC vehicle pushing this like this instead of like backbreaking labor for thousands of people. And so we will just get more creative as humans to figure out better and bigger problems. And that is like how we evolve and how we get better and how like our lives generally improve.