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Human presence is priced as the last un-automatable input

development2026-06-08

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An NBER paper found smartphones cut teen births up to 8%, explaining much of the fertility slump, alongside the rise of Silicon Valley escorts charging $5,000 an hour explicitly as an AI-proof hedge.

Reported metric: -8% teen births / $5,000/hr

Reporting date: 2026-06-08 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 8, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to June 8, 2026

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Population records tie the birth-rate plunge to smartphone adoption

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Welcome to June 8, 2026

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Human presence is priced as the last un-automatable input
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Reporting date: 2026-06-08
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-08-the-least-automatable-input
Claim: An NBER paper found smartphones cut teen births up to 8%, explaining much of the fertility slump, alongside the rise of Silicon Valley escorts charging $5,000 an hour explicitly as an AI-proof hedge.
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- Welcome to June 8, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-8-2026
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