OP-ED #3 · Liviu Tudor, President and Founder of Genesis Property

What happens to the economy when work becomes creativity and talent becomes the new currency

In the first two articles, we followed the arc of human evolution toward a historical break:

in the Age of Becoming, human beings won’t be forced to work simply to survive.

AGI will take on a large share of the effort required to keep society running.

But that raises a core question with massive economic consequences:

If traditional work declines, what becomes the source of value in society?

The answer sits at the center of human nature:

talent.

Not talent as a rare exception, but talent as a universal resource.

1. Why talent becomes the new currency of the economy

In older economies, value was created from scarce resources:

• land
• metals
• capital
• energy
• labor

Today, economic value is increasingly created from:

• ideas
• design
• strategy
• creativity
• experiences
• relationships
• the ability to generate new solutions
• the ability to learn and reinvent

In the Age of Becoming, these capabilities won’t just matter.

They’ll become foundational.

Why? Because anything repetitive, procedural, or standardized will be absorbed by AGI.

What remains – and what can’t be replicated – is the unique expression of the individual.

Personal talents are, by definition, hard to imitate.

And the future economy is built on everything that’s inimitable, non-routine, and deeply human.

2. The old economy was an economy of constraints

The next economy is an economy of potential.

For thousands of years, people were forced to monetize their time, not their talent. They were paid for:

• hours logged
• tasks completed
• procedures followed
• standardized roles

That model created stability – but it also suppressed potential.

With AGI, the constraints flip:

• time is no longer the scarce resource,
• originality is.

The economy of the future becomes an economy of personal expression.

3. Why human talent is the only resource that grows when you use it

Traditional resources get depleted through use.

Talent works in the opposite direction:

• the more you practice it, the stronger it becomes
• the more you create, the more you’re capable of creating
• the more you explore, learn, train, and experiment, the more both value and personal meaning expand

It’s the only economic resource that can scale exponentially.

Creativity and deep competence grow through use—not through consumption.

AGI doesn’t compete with human talent.

It amplifies it.

4. The Becomator becomes the production unit of the new economy

In If the factory was the production unit of the industrial era,

and the office was the production unit of the information era,

then in the Age of Becoming, that role is taken over by:

the Becomator—the space where people produce value by becoming the best version of themselves.

Inside it, individuals:

• identify their innate talent
• develop it with AI tools
• refine it through deliberate practice
• express it through projects, creations, and contributions

The Becomator isn’t a “workplace.”

It’s a system for producing human potential.

And the economic value of the future is born directly from realized potential.

5. In this new economy, competition changes completely

Companies won’t compete:

• for cheaper employees
• for more efficient processes
• for faster automation

They’ll compete for ecosystems where people can become extraordinary.

Cities will compete to create spaces for creativity.

Nations will compete to build platforms for human development—not just factories.

Organizations will compete not through jobs, but through “becoming offers.”

It’s a radical shift in the underlying paradigm.

6. Why the talent economy is inevitable, not optional

As AGI takes over necessary work, a gap appears:

what do people do?

History shows that when a new technological force frees a category of work, society creates a new category of value.

When:

• agriculture freed time, crafts emerged
• industry freed physical labor, office work emerged
• digital tools freed information, creative work expanded

Now, AGI frees the mind.

The only natural direction is deep human expression.

So the economy becomes – inevitably – a talent economy.

7. What a “valuable individual” looks like in this economy

Individual value will no longer be determined by:

• what you know
• how many hours you work
• what role you occupy

But by:

• how much of your potential you’re able to express
• how original you are
• how well you integrate your talent with AI
• how much you can contribute to civilization through creativity

Personal development won’t be a “luxury.”

It will be core economic infrastructure.

8. Conclusion: individual becoming creates collective value

The Age of Becoming isn’t a utopia.

It’s the logical outcome of human and technological evolution.

In this economy:

• people won’t work to produce objects;
• they’ll work to produce increasingly refined versions of themselves;
• society won’t be built around jobs, but around becomings;
• value won’t be extracted from people, but created through people;
• technology won’t replace humans—it will finally free them to be human.

And this can reshape not only the economy, but the meaning of civilization itself.

The Age of Hunting was about survival.

The Age of the Workshop was about craft.

The Age of the Factory was about production.

The Age of the Office was about information.

The Age of AI is about automation.

The Age of Becoming will be about meaning.

And its currency will be talent.