The Stable
The book made claims about a transition that is happening right now: the labour share, the micro-giants, the frontier ledger, the two working examples of citizen ownership. Each entry here takes one real event and scores it against one of those claims. The standing question never changes: who owns the machine?
· scores ch-02, ch-06
Who outbid the homebuilders?
In Northern Virginia, land a homebuilder assembled for houses sold to Amazon for $700 million, nearly forty times the county's going rate. The machine economy has started bidding against the wage economy for the same acres.
· scores ch-02, ch-06, ch-09
Two trillion dollars of maybe
South Korea's AI-led market erased about $2 trillion in forty days. The bubble-callers get their moment, and the book owes them a straight answer.
· scores ch-01, ch-03
The race to turn the lights off
Western chief executives toured China's dark factories and came home terrified. Their response is not to protect the assembly line. It is to build a dark factory of their own.
· scores ch-02, ch-06
Three hundred jobs
Google puts €5 billion into AI infrastructure in Belgium and the announcement leads with 300 new jobs. That is €16.7 million of capital per job, and my own country celebrated the wrong number.