If Atlas Shrugs
Once the plans are everywhere, a dozen companies are the economy. Break them up or run them by rule and the machine does not stop, it moves: Atlas shrugs by building the next factory somewhere else. … readIf Atlas Shrugs
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The Trojan Horse
Nobody will vote for a world where you own nothing. We will take the deal in front of us, the way we took the smartphone, and a new order will emerge from free choices alone: communism’s Trojan horse, built entirely out of capitalism. … readThe Trojan Horse
Feeding the Machine
At full vertical integration, Musk’s three plans, Essential, Living and Health, cost $85 to $500 a person a month to supply, self-insured. A billion people come to $3.5 to $6 trillion a year, and the subscription’s margin carries the half who pay nothing. … readFeeding the Machine
Nobody Hands You the Keys
Our rites of passage were built from things we came to own: the first car, the first apartment, a door of our own. When the bundle removes those objects, families will have to build new thresholds on purpose. … readNobody Hands You the Keys
You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy
Ownership was always three bills in one: use, idle and risk. As AI makes shared fleets cheap to run, a single subscription will cover a whole life, insurance included, for half of an ordinary salary. … readYou’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy