Every previous wave of automation moved from the bottom of the wage scale upward. Looms before clerks. Assembly lines before accountants. The advice that followed each wave was the same and it was reasonable: get educated, get credentialed, get into work that requires judgment rather than hands. This one arrived from the other direction. AI […]

There is a particular Saturday morning that turns up in conversation more often than you would expect. A man who bills at several hundred dollars an hour is on the living room floor with an allen key, three hours into assembling flat-pack furniture, working from a diagram he has now turned around twice. He could […]

Health Wealth: The Form That Sets Every Other Ceiling A man of fifty-eight sells his business, clears the debt, and books the trip he has been describing for eleven years. Three weeks walking in the north of Spain. He gets four days in before his knee gives out, and he spends the rest of it […]