The People's
Share
For millennia, competition over scarce resources has defined human existence. That is ending — or it should, if we let it. Energy, food, shelter, clean water, healthcare, and now intelligence itself: the fight for these need not persist, not for individuals, not for communities, not for nations. With AI and automation, if the cost of producing the means of life approaches zero, the economy of scarcity stops making sense. Zero-sum thinking — my loss is your gain — becomes an absurdity. Abundance is coming.
It is coming either way. Whether it arrives as liberation or as a new enclosure — brutal or serene — is the part we decide. If the people are to have a real share, more than crumbs, more even than the palliative of taxing trillionaires, to own and govern this abundance democratically, we will have to demand it, build it, and take part in it.
It is ours by right — if we can keep it.


