Technology

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.

Exploring civilization’s existential dance with climate change, artificial resource scarcity, and the urgent need for transformative solutions—set against the metaphor of a Viennese Waltz in a burning world…