The Post-Wage Republic Liberty, Dependency, and Ownership in the Age of AI
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
24.04.2026
Verlag
T.J. MadisonSeitenzahl
360
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/2 cm
Gewicht
522 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798235295247
What happens when Artificial Intelligence can do the work, but only a few people own the machines? The Post-Wage Republic is a bold and timely argument about the future of freedom in an age of automation. As AI begins to replace human labor across more sectors of the economy, most debate focuses on jobs, income, and efficiency. This book asks the deeper question: what happens to liberty when wages no longer provide independence, ownership becomes more concentrated, and millions of people drift into permanent dependency? This is not just a book about technology. It is a book about power. It is about who owns the systems, who depends on them, and what happens to a republic when citizens lose the material footing that once allowed them to stand upright, provide for themselves, and resist control. At the center of the book is a stark warning: if AI displaces labor at scale while capital, infrastructure, and intelligent systems remain in the hands of a narrow elite, the result will not be widespread freedom. It will be a new hierarchy. Some will own the engines of production. Many others will be offered access, support, and managed security in place of genuine independence. The Post-Wage Republic explores the collision between AI, capitalism, citizenship, and self-government. It examines the difference between provision and freedom, between comfort and sovereignty, and between a nation of owners and a nation of dependents. It asks whether a society can remain truly free when work no longer anchors dignity, property, and personal agency. This book will appeal to readers of political economy, AI ethics, public policy, American civic thought, and serious nonfiction about liberty and power. It is written for those who sense that the coming struggle is not only about employment or technology, but about whether free people will still have a meaningful place in the order that follows. If the age of AI transforms who works, who owns, and who decides, then the most important question is not how smart the machines become. It is whether citizens will remain free-or become dependents in a system designed by others.
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