Vibecore: the economics of authenticity

This is the strange paradox of our moment: the most valuable selfhood is the one that is scarce enough to be non-fungible, yet legible enough to circulate frictionlessly through the algorithmic and economic marketplace.

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But you can’t automate the ineffable if you never bothered to access or even define what the ineffable looks like. No algorithm can fetch your “vibe” from ‘Source’, much less train on it, if you don’t have one. Before you can offload discernment, you have to possess some discernment worth offloading.

In a landscape of AI-generated homogeneity, authentic taste becomes social capital—a career advantage, an entry ticket, a source of relevance.