the New Consensus blog
This week they crowned the first trillionaire. The story we're being sold about how he got there is a con. So I wrote a short, free book about the truth of Elon Musk's career — how much of it was funded by the US government, and how much was just dumb luck. It's the first in a series we're calling Lucky Bastards.
A four-part series on the coming economic crisis and the only way through
People have been predicting that machines would take all the jobs since the invention of the power loom. So far, they've been wrong every time. I'm going to make the case that this time really is different.
What happens to the economy when AI layoffs start? What are the realistic scenarios, and why will the standard government responses fail?
Universal Basic Income is what most smart people assume is at least part of the solution. It's not. And I don't mean insufficient or politically difficult. I mean the math doesn't work.
Every argument for UBI, followed all the way to its conclusion, ends up being an argument for public ownership. There's exactly one arrangement where the math works.
by Zack Exley
A modern retelling of Edward Bellamy's classic novel. Juliana West, a tech CEO in 2027 San Francisco, wakes up in a transformed America of 2100 and discovers what the world looks like when it actually works.
31 chapters
Technology is set to double our aggregate productivity once again — but in a totally unprecedented and upside down way. We know what to do about this. We just can't bring ourselves to think about it.
Two forgotten ideas that America needs now.
MAGA II will self-destruct and give progressives a chance at power in 2028. The Mission for America is a key to seizing that opportunity.
Here's a tool you can use to tell your favorite figures on X/Twitter that you'll leave it they do
