The Agentic AI Bot that Never Sleeps.
The argument for agentic AI is that it removes the human bottleneck. Ok then.
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The Companion Industry’s Annual Report to Investors
Dear shareholders, it has been a remarkable year for the Companion Industry, and the executive team is pleased to report that domestic unit sales have exceeded internal projections by some seventeen percent. The third-generation…
The Wonderful News That We Are No Longer Needed
For ten thousand years, the powerful needed the rest of us, and frankly it was exhausting for everyone.
The dismantling of the American economy.
If you are under forty, you have inherited a country where the math does not work. Your parents could afford a house on one income.
The old social contract is changing fast.
The old social contract, however unequal, had a structural logic that protected workers even when elites didn't care about them because elites needed workers. They needed soldiers to fight their wars, laborers to make…
A little this and that but mostly AI.
The Chicago Boys and South America is a dark chapter and it's largely been scrubbed from polite American discussion of economics. Milton Friedman and his students at the University of Chicago trained a cohort…
Brace yourself: stagflation is coming and it won’t be good.
The question is no longer whether stagflation arrives. The question is how bad, how long, and who pays.
Jobs Do Not Disappear. They Shift Until They Are Unrecognizable.
Automation does not remove entire professions at once. It removes tasks.
Robots are coming soon and when intelligence starts moving
The coming shift begins when intelligence stops answering and starts acting. Robots are not a distant idea.
How the first German democracy died.
There is a temptation, when looking back at Germany in the early 1930s, to search for a moment where everything suddenly “goes wrong.” A turning point. A single decision.