Economics

Taxing billionaires is the floor, not the ceiling. The technologies exist today to make scarcity, corruption, and tax evasion structurally impossible — but only if the right people build the right infrastructure.

Capital has been ascending away from the human world for decades — from production toward abstraction, from obligation toward optionality. The war in Iran, the Epstein client list, the dissolution of accountability: these are not separate stories. They are what lift looks like from below.

Artificial general intelligence is not just another technological wave. It is a structural tsunami threatening the central bargain underpinning industrial civilization: human labor has value because human intelligence is scarce. That scarcity justified wages, careers, hierarchies, and the quiet belief that there would always be a place for you. That belief is eroding faster than most are willing to admit.