The “Permanent Underclass” is a myth

Photo by Europeana on Unsplash🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few things I’ve built: Kerouac, a writing app | Post Through It, a solo microblogging tool | Distributism.ai, my MCP platform | Laterware, all the AI news you need | Studio Self, a thought leadership agency for founders x VCs.You can buy my book Permissionless here.I keep seeing the same people crashing out over the same thing.I keep being told that we’re heading for an apocalypse, and that I have either three, or six, or 12 months to escape the permanent underclass, after which the social order will have been entirely rewritten, and the haves (post-AI millionaires) will eternally rule over the have-nots (the rest of us chumps)I’d expect to hear this from the AI doomers; it’s their bread and butter to spread the message of bleak determinism that says everything…