Signals
The cost curves are talking
Solar, batteries, compute, robotics: four quiet price declines that have been running for decades. Here's what they're saying about the real cost of keeping everyone alive.
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Field notes from a world in the making.
Ideas, questions, and glimpses of what a society beyond money could look like. New writing, posted as it's ready.
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Won't everyone just be lazy?
It's the first objection anyone raises, and the strongest one. Here it is at full strength, answered honestly — including the part it gets right.
Straight Answer
The commons was never the problem
Can a society protect biodiversity while transforming ecosystems faster than they regenerate? No — but not for the reason everyone reaches for.
Straight Answer
What happens to your mortgage?
The transition question everyone actually cares about: your house, your debt, your savings, your retirement — walked through honestly, party by party.
Straight Answer
"Who pays for it?" is the wrong question
It's the first objection everyone raises, and it deserves a straight answer. Here it is — plus the better question hiding underneath it.
The Long View
Money has been replaced before
Money is genuinely ancient — and it has also been torn up and rebuilt from scratch at least five times. Every time, the people living through it were sure the version they had was money itself.
Signals
The question they left blank
Fourteen Google DeepMind researchers mapped every route past human-level AI — then reached the question of what it does to ordinary human lives, wrote about a hundred and thirty words, and stopped. That blank is an invitation.
A Day In…
Monday morning, no paycheck
Remove the rent from the alarm clock and what's left of Monday? A walk through one imagined day — the nurse who stays, the claims processor who finally fixes things, the neighbor who doesn't work at all.
Signals
AI is building the on-ramp
Automation looks like a threat inside a money economy. Through the Copiosis lens, the same machines are paving the on-ramp.
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An idea whose time is coming
The launch post: why Copiosis is arriving at exactly the right moment, and why the next chapter belongs to all of us.
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