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Burn It Down: Artificial Intelligence, the Wage Exit, and the End of the Middle Class

2026

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Synopsis

The AI transition is not a technology story.

It is a heist.

Right now, capital is exiting its dependence on human labor. Not gradually. Structurally. The Wage Exit – capital's structural departure from its dependence on human labor – is happening in boardrooms, server farms, and regulatory capture operations. While the affected populations scroll.

The $300+ trillion global debt system rests on one assumption: humans work, humans earn, money moves. Remove the worker and the system fails. The AI transition is removing the worker.

The people building this know. They've always known. They did it anyway.

BURN IT DOWN is not a warning. Warnings are for things that haven't happened yet. It is an autopsy – of the mechanism, the people who built it, the institutions that were supposed to stop it and didn't, and the management tools being prepared to keep the displaced population comfortable enough to not respond in time.

This is not a socialist argument. It is a capitalist's prosecution of capitalism's impersonation. If your answer to monopoly is bureaucracy, you have not understood the problem.

"The arsonists are sincere. That is the indictment."

Not left vs. right. Not worker vs. employer. The people who own the mechanism before the transition completes will compound. Everyone else will be administered.

Own the machine. Or be managed by the people who do.

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