TODAY, UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA STARE US IN THE FACE

Artificial intelligence is the first technology that simultaneously replaces both mental and physical labor. Entering our lives, together with robots, drones, and self-driving vehicles, it is triggering an unprecedented revolution. A new era is beginning, deeply contradictory.

With unprecedented wealth creation but also explosions of inequality.

With a surge in productivity that nevertheless threatens workers in knowledge services with low demand elasticity, such as legal, accounting, consulting services, etc.

With falling prices but also suffocating pressure on trade.

With technological leaps and the simultaneous displacement of human labor.

Thodoros Skylakakis combines economic analysis, political philosophy, and historical experience to map this transition. He proposes policies to prevent the mass devaluation of people and social upheavals. And he puts forward a groundbreaking proposal: the transition from a society of wage earners to a society of owners, where everyone possesses a Universal Basic Capital.

At the same time, he defends European-style democracies as the last hope against authoritarianism and poses the crucial question: how can we avoid creating a new entity that we will not be able to control?

A book that serves as a compass for the age of great upheaval.