the Uncomfortable Elite: threat of inaction: why doing nothing is ultimate power move

Artificial intelligence is not stealing jobs. It is dismantling the economic architecture that gave hundreds of millions of people a place in the world. In three cities - Manila, Chicago, Shenzhen - the same moment is arriving for different people in different forms. Maria, a BPO team leader with nine years of expertise. James, a paralegal whose twenty years of pattern-recognition may be economically worthless within five. Chen Wei, a factory manager who has survived two automation waves and is confronting the limits of that strategy. This book is not about technology. It is about power. About who owns the new economy, how completely they own it, and why the governments that would need to respond are structurally prevented from doing so. Drawing on the Gilded Age, the French Revolution, and the present-day architecture of AI ownership, The Uncomfortable Elite makes a single, cold argument to the powerful: the window for voluntary redistribution is closing. History shows what fills the gap when it does. The outcome is not determined. The window is open. The question is whether the people who must act will move in time.

Pagina's: 200, Paperback, Independently published