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The standard refrain from economists goes something like this: Technology lowers the cost of goods and services Therefore real wealth and consumer demand rises Which increases spending Which creates
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Geostrategic competition between US and China; Open Source vs Closed Source; A situational awareness perspective on where AI is today and the phase change we're going through In chess, there’s a
I'm an AI maximalist, which in an age where AI's popularity is dropping off a cliff, makes me a bit of a contrarian. At least in the broader cultural conversation. So here's what I mean by "AI
Project Glasswing, Claude Mythos, and the New Shape of Cybersecurity What Actually Happened On April 7, 2026, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative built around an
Unpacking the ontological vertigo of an automation job apocalypse Humanity has a doxa about labor. A doxa is an unspoken belief, something that supersedes dogma. Our labor doxa is what I call the
My pre-birth soul choices seem to come with a sense of humor, and a healthy dose of self-trolling Our dog died in late 2024. He was 14, and had a very good life. Three months later, we were adopting
My book Labor/Zero: A Post-Labor Economics Treatise just launched on Kickstarter, so I could really use your support! The link is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daveshap/labor-zero Elon Musk keeps talking about "universal
Capitalism doesn't need workers. It needs customers! Post-Labor Economics is capitalism's next upgrade. The economy that can fully automate production while maintaining aggregate demand is the
What if the labor movement's final victory is the end of labor? For a century, progressives have fought to get workers a bigger slice of the pie. PLE gives them the bakery. Universal capital ownership
Some on the right have called this "Marxist, feminist nonsense" but I beg to differ I was shocked when the Heritage Foundation quoted me by name. In that article, they made simplest argument that AI
Neoliberalism has its universal commandments. I figured Post-Labor Economics ought to as well. Here are 12 economic imperatives distilled from all my work on PLE. Wages built the modern world. Every
