The Uncomfortable Elite

Artificial intelligence is not stealing jobs. It is dismantling the economic
architecture that gave hundreds of millions of people a place in the world.
In three cities - Manila, Chicago, Shenzhen - the same moment is arriving for
different people in different forms. Maria, a BPO team leader with nine years of
expertise. James, a paralegal whose twenty years of pattern-recognition may be
economically worthless within five. Chen Wei, a factory manager who has survived
two automation waves and is confronting the limits of that strategy.
This book is not about technology. It is about power. About who owns the new
economy, how completely they own it, and why the governments that would need to
respond are structurally prevented from doing so.
Drawing on the Gilded Age, the French Revolution, and the present-day architecture
of AI ownership, The Uncomfortable Elite makes a single, cold argument to the
powerful: the window for voluntary redistribution is closing. History shows what
fills the gap when it does.
The outcome is not determined. The window is open.
The question is whether the people who must act will move in time.