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Or maybe it’s just me, and all is well. Time will tell.

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 of all “reforms.”

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 is tired of being exploited as an uncomplaining resource.

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.

Extortion is the keystone of America’s Mafioso Economy.

We’re humoring our self-delusion.

AI is not so much a tool that everyone uses in more or less the same way, but a mirror in which we see our own reflection–if we care to look.

We’re frogs in a pot that’s being heated so gradually that we no longer notice the sewage is extinguishing the utility of the Web.

As a thought experiment, consider these changes to our economy’s incentive structure.

Let’s summarize our thought experiment: the AI Mania scores 100% on all eight metrics of a Psych-Ops.

That this extreme inequality is itself the primary threat to both democracy and social stability is poorly understood.

This is a catastrophic decline of health that no one dares calls a catastrophe.

Every single thing that increases resilience and self-reliance is impossible.

One way or another, some significant percentage of the wealth of the nation will have to start supporting children and young families if this nation is going to have a future worth saving.