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Despite the machines and all their economic interventions, the resistance still managed to hold out against the algorithms. The status of artists within a community was always their stash of materials and the skills they accumulated to transmogrify their pile. While Warren Buffett spent a lifetime value investing his way to a giant mound of cash, the artists were saving odd bits of scrap wood.

The resistance had lurked in the machine’s blind spot, and it was our wealth of scrap plywood that gave us the beachhead.

Use the comments to complete the following, “I have nothing to offer but ____.”

A photo of a large sculpture depicting an artists immense wealth of plywood, crafted by W. Buffett, digital art

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