Replacing entry-level jobs with AI is already rational for companies.
A generation with no on-ramp is the result.
Idle youth has always pushed governments toward tighter control - on platforms, on algorithms, on the flow of information.
Age of Abundance
_@ageofabundance.live
npub17f3j...45t4
A daily live show about the monetary transition from fiat to Bitcoin - AI deflation, energy abundance, and the restoration of humanity. Hosted by Ricky Zhang. Live weekdays at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Clips daily.
Cobalt miners hope for their kids.
Genocide survivors hope for their kids.
Hope is the default condition of being human.
Nihilism is the rare exception, not the rule.
What do people regret most on their deathbed?
That they lived someone else's life.
The script is always the same: degree, job, mortgage, debt service.
That script is what debt-based money needs to keep expanding.
Better money hands the choice back to you.
For ten years Larry Fink called Bitcoin a fad.
Then BlackRock launched the ETF.
Bitcoin returns 45 percent a year on average.
The S&P returns 10.
Clients won't let you ignore that forever.
Why does inequality keep widening?
New money reaches asset holders first.
They get to spend it at today's prices.
Wage earners only feel the inflation later.
It's called the Cantillon effect.
A first trillionaire was always coming.
So is a quadrillionaire...
Don't hate the trillionaire - hate what he has a trillion of.
That's what broken money does.
1971 wasn't a policy decision.
It was a bank run.
France sent warships to New York to collect its gold.
The US had issued more paper claims than gold existed.
Nixon defaulted because he had no choice.
Deflation doesn't mean you stop spending.
It means you stop spending on bullshit.
Less impulse food delivery, less doomscroll buying, less gambling - more craft, more savings, more things built to last.
That's what falling prices actually buy you.
Your dollar is a circus ticket.
Nothing in the natural world has backed it since 1971.
It's a belief we all agreed to hold...
And you trade your hours for it.
Inflation isn't loud.
The number in your bank account doesn't move.
Prices creep up. Life costs more.
The next generation has less hope than the last.
And we're told that's normal.
When a bank makes a loan, it creates the principal.
It doesn't create the money for the interest.
The total owed is always more than the money that exists.
The debt clock isn't a policy failure, it's the math.
Elon became a trillionaire last Friday.
No rocket launched.
No invention shipped.
A spreadsheet moved: one man worth more than entire countries.
Nothing changed but the number.
A debt-based money system has only two states.
Expand the debt forever, or implode all at once.
We will never choose the implosion.
So the expansion is locked in.
And your paycheck quietly pays the bill.
Kings used to shave the edges off gold coins.
Then spend the shavings like real money.
We upgraded the gold to a ledger.
The numbers in your account never change.
The purchasing power quietly drains out.
That's all inflation is.
Your retirement fund is concentrated in seven AI companies.
It's chasing the highest returns on paper.
Those returns come from models built to replace your labor.
The same labor that funds your retirement.
Your savings are paying to automate YOU.
The dollar is a melting ice cube.
It's so big it'll take years...
So it still looks solid. It still buys groceries.
Plenty of smart people will keep calling it ice.
The shape lies. The math doesn't.
The first trillionaire wasn't a surprise.
It was a schedule.
Next comes a quadrillionaire. Then a quintillionaire.
That's not greed, it's a dollar that has to keep expanding.
Change the rails and the schedule stops.
Team red and team blue run the SAME play.
We'll print money, but we'll give it to you, not them.
The target changes. The pitch doesn't.
The fight isn't the bug.
It's what keeps the printer running.
You took the easy win once.
It felt a little wrong, maybe 1% wrong...
But 1% moves compound: the next one is easier.
The money rewards jostling closer to the printer.
Fix the money and the compromise stops paying.
You spent years in school.
Nobody explained how money gets created.
Even in economics class you just take it as a given...
The curriculum came from the same system that prints the money.
That's not a secret. It's just incentives.