Salary jobs are how we'll get the 20-hour workweek—we already are!

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The result is that we're using our salary jobs to fund our passion projects: A parallel economy built on the stability of a solid paycheck, and providing enough leisure hours for creative tasks.

AI is further automating work. “I haven’t written a line of code in months," one developer said. "I just refine my prompts.”

If you can get the same work done in half the time…
why shouldn’t the workweek be half as long?

Others joined him—forming the Overemployed community, now 5,000+ strong.

One guy reportedly had nine jobs at once.
(Earning $900K/year. Remote.)

He was so efficient that he finished 40 hours of work in 20.
So he thought: why not do two 20-hour jobs instead of pretending to work 40 at one?

Soon, he was earning two six-figure salaries.

Thoughts while researching my book.... wefunder.com/elysianpress

You can look at the chart I am referring to to see how each country specifically stacks up on each thing.

Europe won the 20th Century, and I think it will still win the 21st, but they'll have to innovate, economically develop, attract international talent, and militarily protect themselves to keep the streak going.

I think they will. www.elysian.press/p/a-report-c...

Today: Europe is one of the best places to live.

Tomorrow: Europe risks falling relatively behind in tech, growth, and global influence.

But the US faces similar risks because of our political instability and isolationism, and we have much farther to go to prosper at the level of Europe.

Analysts aren’t worried about today’s prosperity, but tomorrow's problems:

◘ Aging/shrinking populations → fewer workers, more retirees, pension strain.

◘ Lagging productivity/innovation vs US & China → dependant consumers, not creators

◘ Energy insecurity → reliance on imports

Publishing doesn’t have to be extractive. Neither does the economy.

Readers should benefit from a book’s success (not just publishers), just as all of us should benefit from the economy (not just investors).

This is what the future of books (and business) can look like. wefunder.com/elysian.press/

I'm doing it this way for a reason:

We need to change who owns capital.

Private ownership of capital created wealth & prosperity, but now we need more owners of it. Not just the founders and executives and already rich, but everyone.

That's the subject of my book: We Should Own The Economy

I retain ownership & creative control.

My readers become stakeholders, not a publishing house.

And they are incentivized to help it succeed—they'll earn a share of the profits when it sells.

I especially love Singapore's regular think tanks that inspire youth to reimagine governance. I once wrote about one of the ideas that resulted: A "wikiocracy." www.elysian.press/p/what-if-go...

YES! And that doesn't surprise me that they use QV. There is a lot to love about the Singapore model. If Yarvin wants to use Singapore as the poster-child for autocracy I'll happily use it as the poster-child for innovating democracy. Let's take what works!

Many don't realize just how much democratic input Singapore's autocracy is actually taking into consideration. And as you point out, Taiwan takes that to the next level. The more of that we can do, the better!

Thank you for reading and engaging with my work E. Glen!!!! I'm a huge fan of yours!

The tech we invent now—AI, automation, satellites—can be used for great good or great harm.

Dictatorship puts those tools in one man’s hands.
Democracy puts them in ours.

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The solution isn't to abolish democracy, it's to innovate it. @glenweyl.bsky.social thinks democracy could become incredibly organized and efficient if we catch it up to the times with:

Quadratic voting
Quadratic budgeting
Participatory democracy

And yes, automation!

Democracy has a better track record.

Stronger economies
Safer streets
Less corruption
Longer, healthier lives

But it's messy and inefficient. China and Singapore are fully automating and building hundreds of miles of train track while America can't even build a track between LA and San Francisco.