Author: Charles Hugh Smith

In this realm of extraction, exploitation, artifice and illusion, "growth" is garbage.

The key insight of "let it rot" and "the garbage time of history" is the inauthenticity…

Since we didn't need relationships in a transactional system, we no longer have any.

In the labored daze of AI hype and GDP "growth," few seem to notice the workforce…

The most pressing need now is for AI tools to protect us from AI tools.

What nobody seems to notice is all the incentives for deploying AI are perverse.