The Thesis · Five Parts
The Arc
One continuous argument in five movements: how the economic machine allocates people, what AI does to that machine, and a monetary and tax architecture we propose to address the challenges that follow. Read in order — each part hands off to the next.
- 1Exposition · The Diagnosis
The System of the World
Read nowEconomic growth is really the fraction of people freed from last year’s work. The machine has been tuned to reabsorb that rate for 250 years. AI just put it on a new exponent — and that is the whole story.
- 2Rising Action · The Reframe
From Labor + Capital to Energy + Capital
Working draftIf labor is being driven out of production, what is left? Energy was always the third factor hiding inside capital. Push the trend to the limit and production reduces to energy and raw materials.
- 3Climax · Currency Reform
Pegging the Dollar to the Engine of the Economy
Working draftMoney supply grew fifteen-fold in fifty years; energy 1.3×; real wages barely moved. The case for anchoring the dollar to the physical engine of the economy — and delivering new money to households, not banks.
- 4Falling Action · The Tax Stack
Steering the Take-Off
Working draftStop taxing labor. Tax energy at consumption and concentrated capital net of liabilities. The policy mechanics that sit on top of the new monetary architecture.
- 5Resolution · The Synthesis
The New System of the World
Coming soonThe four prior moves taken together: a diagnosed crisis, a factor reframe, a monetary architecture, a tax stack. Not a patch on the current operating system — a coherent successor, built for the regime the diagnosis identifies.