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Short Videos
I narrate these summaries of my recent essays (around 2 minutes each)
August 2026
Our Foundations Have Rotted Away While the Bubble Benefited the Top 10% (2:31 min)(August 2026)
Essay: While We Focused on Fripperies, the Foundations Have Rotted Away
Economics Measures What's Easy to Measure, Not What Matters (1:58 min)(August 2026)
Essay: AI and the Delusions of Increasing Productivity
The American Dream Is Dead, Stop Denying It (2:07 min)(August 2026)
Essay: The American Dream Is Dead, But We Don't Dare Admit It
A Beggar's Banquet of Solutions (2:18 min)(August 2026)
Essay: I'm Asking You to Support My Work This Month
The Joyless Pantomime of Going Through the Motions (1:56 min)(August 2026)
Essay: The Joyless Pantomime of Optimizing Ennui
This is the Golden Age of the Big Con (2:11 min)(August 2026)
Essay: The Joys and Tragedies of Naivete
Why Finance Won't Save Us (2:19 min)(August 2026)
Essay: When Magic Expires: The Demise of Finance
July 2026
Get the Flock Out of Here: Our Privatized Surveillance System (2:15 min)(July 2026)
Essay: Get the Flock Out of Here
New Car Owners Are Chauffeuring Big Brother (2:22 min)(July 2026)
Essay: Driving Big Brother
Understanding Risk Is Revolutionary (2:10 min)(July 2026)
Essay: The Revolutionary Loneliness of Acting Alone
The Gold-Painted Leg-Irons of Our Neofeudal Autocracy (2:16 min)(July 2026)
Essay: Who Will Solve Our Real Problem--The US is a Neofeudal Autocracy
America's Ten Socio-Economic Classes (2:22 min)(July 2026)
Essay: The Conflicts Brewing in America's Ten Classes
Anticipating the Breakdown of Civilizational Psychosis (2:18 min)(July 2026)
Essay: The Upside of Civilizational Psychosis
AI Is the Ultimate Ultra-Processed Life (2:22 min)(July 2026)
Essay: AI Is the Apex of Ultra-Processed Life
Dump the Risks on Us and Immiseration Follows (2:21 min)(July 2026)
Essay: Offload Risks onto the Bottom 90% and Immiseration Follows
To Fix What's Broken, Start Here (2:05 min)(July 2026)
Essay: How Do We Fix What's Broken?
Stripped of Subsidies, AI Is Unaffordable (2:23 min)(July 2026)
Essay: Without Subsidies, AI Is Unaffordable
Rowboats in the Stormy Seas of AI (1:50 min)(July 2026)
Essay: Sailing the Stormy Seas of AI
Revolution and Retribution (2:07 min)(July 2026)
Essay: A Revolutionary July 4th: Retribution Is Irrationally Rewarding
The Risks of AI: It's Tricky (2:02 min)(July 2026)
Essay: The US Economy Risk and AI: It's Tricky
June 2026
Our Pillage Economy: Privatize the Gains, Socialize the Costs (2:16 min)(June 2026)
Essay: The US Economy In a Nutshell: Privatize the Gains, Socialize the Costs
Retribution: What No One Sees Coming (2:06 min)(June 2026)
Essay: The Retribution No One Sees Coming
5 Dynamics That Make Sense of an Increasingly Chaotic World (2:29 min)(June 2026)
Essay: Five Dynamics That Make Sense of an Increasingly Chaotic World
The Ideas That Once Explained Everything Now Explain Nothing (1:28 min)(June 2026)
Essay: The What Once Explained Everything Now Explains Nothing
The Revolution No One Sees Coming (1:24 min)(June 2026)
Essay: The Revolution No One Sees Coming
We're Busy Automating Needless Work (2:24 min)(June 2026)
Essay:
What If the Work We're Busy Automating Is Needless?
What AI Is and What It Is Not (2:21 min)(June 2026)
Essay:
What AI Is and Is Not-- or, When Electrocution of Innocents Becomes Profitable
Greed, Excess, Sacrifice and Corruption (2:19 min)(June 2026)
Essay:
Greed, Excess, Sacrifice and Corruption
We Don't Need the Real World, We Only Need Money (2:04 min)(June 2026)
Essay:
We Don't Need the World, We Only Need Money
AI's Core Flaw: "Mass Regurgitation of Misinformation" (2:00 min)(June 2026)
Essay:
AI's Insurmountable Flaw: "Mass Regurgitation of Misinformation"
AI Isn't Reversing Anti-Progress, It's Accelerating It (2:02 min)(June 2026)
Essay:
Is AI Reversing Anti-Progress or Is It Accelerating It?
Choose One: Housing Is Either Shelter or Just Another Bubble Asset (2:05 min)(June 2026)
Essay:
Choose One: Housing Is Shelter, or Housing Is Just Another Asset in a Bubble Economy
AI Data Centers Are Not Like Railroads (2:11 min)(June 2026)
Essay:
AI Data Centers Are Not the Railroads of Today
May 2026
Could Instability Trigger Radical Change In Your Life? (2:16 min)(May 2026)
Essay:
Could Instability Trigger Radical Change In Your Life?
Here's Why Consumer Sentiment Is at Record Lows (1:44 min)(May 2026)
Essay:
Why Is Consumer Sentiment at Record Lows?
When Unfairness Is Systemic, the Consequences Are Resistance and Revolt (2:04 min)(May 2026)
Essay:
When Unfairness Is Systemic, the Consequences Are Flight, Resistance, Revolt
What Happens When Optimization Is Itself the Point of Failure? (2:14 min)(May 2026)
Essay:
We've Optimized Fragility, Failure, Denial--and Rage
Inequality, AI and Digital Life Are Undermining Society (1:57 min)(May 2026)
Essay:
Inequality, AI and Digital Life Are Undermining Society
In a Financial Crisis, Everyone Will Consider Themselves 'The Good Guys' (2:09 min)(May 2026)
Essay:
Remember: In a Crisis, Everyone Will Consider Themselves 'The Good Guys'
Unleashing Chaos: When "Irrational" Makes Perfect Sense (1:48 min)(May 2026)
Essay:
Chaos Unleashed: When "Irrational" Makes Perfect Sense
When US Treasuries Play a Reverse Card (1:55 min)(May 2026)
Essay:
When US Treasuries Play a Reverse Card
What Would Be Truly Bullish? How About Actually Fixing What's Broken (1:55 min)(May 2026)
Essay:
What Would Be Truly Bullish? Actually Fixing What's Broken
Navigating Recession and Revolution: Our Experience Isn't a Model or System (1:44 min)(May 2026)
Essay:
Recession and Revolution: Our Experience Isn't a Model or System
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