Of Two Minds

A “Pirates of the Caribbean” themed experience is planned, where the taxpayers are repeatedly robbed by a motley crew of miscreants.

Cloaking a fake “market” with artifice to maintain its asymmetrical distribution of wealth and income also cloaks its detachment from the real world.

To claim that jostling for the biggest share of federal power and largesse–in a word, greed–magically serves the common good is a convenient cover for an oligarchy masquerading as a “democracy.”

Skills that require time–working with people, building trust, forming relationships, navigating attraction and rejection–do not respond to shortcuts.

Either way AI goes–replacing human labor or failing to meet today’s lofty expectations–the result is the same: an economic Depression.

As systemic risks rise, what matters is the thickness of one’s buffers against bad things happening. Those with wealth, power and privilege have sea walls, the rest of us have crumbling sand castles.