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What we’ve lost are the foundations of a healthy standard of living / quality of life.

In refusing to recognize that inequality had the potential to bring down the entire system, our delay has made that reckoning inevitable.

Here’s the real problem: there’s no profit in a raw carrot and a walk around the block.

Just as a reminder of what’s being gambled on “AI supremacy”: it’s not just financial capital, it’s everything.

Even if an AI program advises selling everything and walking away from the market for five years, how many of us would take this advice?

When people stop participating in their own servitude, then things change.

It would serve our interests to plot out what we can do from where we are right now should the status quo succumb to gravity.

The problem with AI and the rest of Ultra-Processed Life is we slowly lose the ability to even grasp what’s been lost.

Only the wealthy will benefit from ZIRP, and the benefits of “the wealth effect” and “trickle down” have not just diminished–they’re now negative. Welcome to the era of ZAP.

Is this scenario guaranteed? No, of course not. But that doesn’t mean it’s excluded from the realm of possibility.

While we focus on AI and finance, society is crumbling beneath our feet.

GDP is like collecting data on passenger satisfaction with the dessert cart on the Titanic and declaring everyone is delighted as the great “unsinkable” ship settles into the icy waters of the Atlantic.

The pool of speculative fervor will be drained, as impossible as that seems in this moment in history.

Self-discipline isn’t supposed to be punishing. Rather, it’s friendly and encouraging. The encouraging Master is strict only in holding fast to moderation.

As I often note, making Plans B and C is free.