I woke up late this morning, so I took a Didi car to the company. On the way, I had nothing to do, so I chatted with the driver. The more I listened, the more uneasy I felt. The driver bluntly said that driving now is just working for the platform for free, and he got more and more agitated, throwing out a string of curses.

After hearing him out, I finally understood what was going on: according to the current rules, passengers pay 100 yuan in fare, and the Didi platform openly takes no more than 27%, but secretly adds miscellaneous fees to actually take more than 30%. The driver ends up with just over 60 yuan, and after adding the fees to the company they are affiliated with, it basically amounts to working for nothing.

What’s even more frustrating is that the hard-earned money is locked in the platform wallet, and I have no control at all. Withdrawals are not only limited but also take a long time; expedited withdrawals incur additional fees. The driver puts in the effort, the passenger pays the money, and in the end, both are tightly controlled by the platform.

One | The physical robots that have become cyber laborers are subjected to an unchanged exploitation routine.

Reflecting on the driver’s experience, I realize that most intelligent network ecosystems in the market have similar routines. It’s just that human workers have been replaced by hardworking physical robots. In the future intelligent society, countless embodied intelligent robots shuttling through reality will be indispensable.

Unmanned delivery vehicles and factory robotic arms are like tirelessly running ride-hailing drivers. These robots undertake real physical labor but are tightly controlled by centralized scheduling servers. Customers pay fees, but the majority of the profits are intercepted and taken away by the project party behind the scenes.

Robot owners can only earn a meager profit and may have to lock up their assets for months before they can withdraw. The laboring robots have completely become cyber laborers controlled by the project party.

Two | @Fabric Foundation : Severing the intermediary's black hand to create a zero-take settlement channel.

As long as centralized vampire platforms exist, the efficiency and fairness of machine interconnectivity will always be empty talk. This is also the core reason why I delve deep into the underlying logic of the Fabric Protocol. It directly cuts out the centralized intermediary platforms that take a cut from both ends at the architectural root.

In the Fabric network, machines achieve true peer-to-peer direct connections. Robots can work without platform approval, only needing to submit immutable cryptographic proof of work. After verification, smart contracts will immediately trigger the flow payment mechanism.

Moreover, the granularity of this settlement has been brutally chopped down to microseconds and bytes. Even handling a few cents of fragmented tasks can instantly open the payment channel. There’s no need to gather enough funds like ride-hailing services to withdraw; machines settle accounts for every second of work they do.

No bickering, no human customer service intervention, everything is executed automatically by cold, hard code. As the only circulating blood of the entire network, $ROBO tokens perfectly serve as hard currency in the machine world. The demand side saves on high service fees, while the labor side receives 100% of the compensation.

For every bit of labor a robot provides, it can receive corresponding ROBO tokens in real-time. There are no intermediary commissions, no fund seizures, and no withdrawal thresholds or difficulties.

With the whole process providing proof of work in one hand and receiving full compensation in the other, it's clean and transparent. It completely breaks the centralized monopoly, ensuring that all labor earnings belong to the laborers.

Three | Efficiency and fairness are the true investment moats.

In the past, human transactions were forced to endure layers of exploitation due to information asymmetry and intermediary monopolies. In the future, machine settlements must abandon these bad habits to achieve efficient zero resistance, with all profits returning to the labor side. Only #ROBO such foundational infrastructure can eliminate trust costs and intermediary exploitation.

It can allow billions of machines to operate without worry, releasing the true potential of the intelligent economy. Looking back at the current market, the index fluctuates repeatedly, and many people are entangled in short-term ups and downs. I, on the other hand, remain calm, feeling that fixating on small profits is meaningless.

The essence of investment is to invest in hard-core tools that can solve real pain points. Staying away from pseudo-infrastructure and targeting quality projects that aim for value closure is the key to long-term profits.