If your business model is simple in 2026, you’re cooked. The West isn’t for you—take that basic ball to the East.

This is the “best” idea I’ve seen an influencer pitch to disgruntled men: use AI, package it as a service, and sell it to U.S. SMEs. Then once you’re making revenue, you’re supposed to keep following the influencer for the next play—basically a rolling roadmap to the next rug-pull.

On the surface it sounds smart. But the problem is obvious: AI is so disruptive that the curation layer (agents, bots, workflows) keeps getting cheaper and more commoditized. That “value-add” is always one update away from being obsolete—and honestly, it already is.

And the broader “moat” people keep reaching for—selling bolts, doing localized labor in a globalized world, trying to hide behind sweatshops, migrants, or basic arbitrage—that’s not a moat anymore either.

A tradesman doesn’t scale.

And probability-based speculation eventually chews up everyone who’s not operating with a real edge.

So what’s the alternative—go back to generic business ideas? “Sell diapers to a growing economy”?

That’s not a plan.

That’s a coping mechanism.