Has the word "neoliberalism" ever come up in your conversations? This word has absolutely been running your life, even if it's never once come out of your mouth.
Should you be scared of A.I.? Probably yes. But almost certainly not for the reasons you think…
The technology is too far along, the capital too committed, the infrastructure too deep. A.I. is going to work. The only question that actually matters is: work for whom?
In 2024, global employee engagement fell to near-pandemic levels… without a pandemic. The crisis isn't one thing, it's everything, all colliding at once, and we have no framework for processing any of it.
We already have the technology to build a genuinely extraordinary future... so why aren't we building it?
Everyone keeps asking “Can we prevent an A.I. crisis?” History suggests: probably not. And more importantly… we actually don't want to. But we can shorten its pain. And that distinction is everything.
In 2009, I walked into a grad school class called "Lean Management and Building Shareholder Value" and expected to be bored out of my mind. Instead, it was where I first heard an idea that's guided how I think about literally everything since.
Nobody understands the federal budget. Not you, not me, not most people in government. And that's not a bug… it's the system working exactly as designed.
The people capturing the gains from A.I. are hiring lobbyists, funding campaigns, and having dinner with senators. Meanwhile, a lot of us are on the sidelines saying, "What's the point; government is worthless!"
Money isn't a thing. It's a promise. And once you see that, everything else — global debt, the gold standard, the petrodollar, even billionaires — clicks into place as one story.