AI Takes Our Jobs. What Comes Next?
Ideas to take with you.
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AI development moves in pulses where centralization pushes the frontier and decentralized open source catches up within six to twelve months, which prevents durable monopoly moats over the technology.
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Job displacement will not look like street protests for a while; it looks like broken hiring pipelines, graduates ghosted after thousands of applications, and companies quietly settling into a no-hire-no-fire equilibrium.
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Debt-based money requires inflation to remain solvent, which means the falling prices that AI should produce for consumers must be countered by money printing that props prices back up.
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On a debt-based system, AI displacement pushes populations toward dependence on whoever controls the money; on sound money, that same productivity flows to anyone holding the scarcest asset.
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The socialist impulse arises from an inequality baked into the money's power structure, not from inequality of outcomes as such; severing the link between wealth and control is closer to what the impulse actually wants.
