What happens if AI gets banned? There's this junior dev I know. Learned to code entirely with Claude. Not cheating - actually learned. Can architect systems, understands logic, ships real products. But ask him to write a sorting algorithm from scratch? He'd struggle. The muscle memory isn't there. Now imagine AI gets restricted overnight. Is he a real developer or not? He built real things. Solved real problems. Got paid real money. But without the tool he learned with, can he actually do the job? That's the question nobody's asking. We're all worried about AI taking jobs. But we're not thinking about what happens if AI gets taken away. Think about wages. You're making $120k because you're 5x more productive with AI. Your lifestyle, your rent, your life is built around that number. AI goes away. You're still getting paid $120k but producing at 1x. Your employer knows it. You know it. How long does that last? You can't take a pay cut back to $60k - you've got a mortgage at $120k income levels. But you can't justify $120k at your new output either. You're just... stuck. Why would any of this happen? Maybe unemployment hits 25% too fast and governments panic. Maybe there's a security incident - AI causes infrastructure damage, financial manipulation, something that scares everyone. Maybe it's just monopoly backlash and regulation spirals into restriction. Doesn't really matter which trigger. People will find ways around it anyway. Open source models, black markets, VPNs. We spent three years restructuring everything around AI being available. Careers, businesses, salary expectations, how we train people. Can you actually reverse that? Or is the dependency permanent now? Everyone's scared AI will replace us. Nobody's thinking about how fucked we'd be if it disappeared.