> when has this been ever not true?

We had a literary explosion in the last few decades where the competitive advantage of reading may have reached its nadir. (The supply side also screwed the pooch. Recent non-fiction has been polluted with fluff. Literature, on the other hand, is in a renaissance.)

In the last two years, on the other hand, I’ve found significant advantage in being able to speak, write and read clearly. The only thing I can think of is people marking themselves through LLM use, directly and indirectly.