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<3 you know what, I'm keeping it now.

Also true but that's not something I can easily show with economics.

Why is it strange? To me, it could only be strange if one was considering that someone planned this, and then yes, it's hard to come up with anyone who would benefit from this. Ope…

I like this article. Rings very true. I like Anthropic, I don't think all their talk of safety is bluff and bluster, or at least, I want to believe that the people who left OpenAI …

"What's your unique contribution to the world" is a good question, and I've been thinking about it a lot. One framing I very much like is thinking about the priceable versus unpric…

They already are out! They're linked at the end of the post, but here's a link to the next one: https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/06/19/make-work-and-sub-subsis...

In my follow up pieces in the series, I detail a way to make the economy actually see a lot (not all, but way more than before) of that value. I'm pretty proud of it. It might be p…

I don't take it as a personal attack, I've wondered the same. It is definitely like a grand theory. I have a couple therapists I'm talking to.

I have a better response now. The ability to take leisure is still conditioned on labor. To take time off, you have to save up. To save up, you have to work. Labor is distorting th…

I have a new version that uses US and Finnish consumption data to model the mechanisms effects. https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/06/14/labor-pressures-causing-...

I've changed it a bit, but yeah that's true, sorry.

That's fair, they seem similar at first glance. The difference is that we are asking the economy to create jobs even when it doesn't "want" to. It still will, the lump of labor fal…

That's true, I think the real problem is a liiiiittle more nuanced than just the great stagnation. But that's the graph people know. The issue can be read out in more detail from o…

I agree, and in some sense I argue this at the end, but I didn't want to make the piece even longer. In fact if you look at the economics of this policy over the long term it leaks…