{"product_id":"the-uncomfortable-elite-the-threat-of-inaction-why-doing-nothing-is-the-ultimate-power-move-9798198155695","title":"The Uncomfortable Elite: The threat of inaction: why doing nothing is the ultimate power move","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Daniel Horan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Inflation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtificial intelligence is not stealing jobs. It is dismantling the economic\u003cbr\u003earchitecture that gave hundreds of millions of people a place in the world.\u003cbr\u003eIn three cities - Manila, Chicago, Shenzhen - the same moment is arriving for\u003cbr\u003edifferent people in different forms. Maria, a BPO team leader with nine years of\u003cbr\u003eexpertise. James, a paralegal whose twenty years of pattern-recognition may be\u003cbr\u003eeconomically worthless within five. Chen Wei, a factory manager who has survived\u003cbr\u003etwo automation waves and is confronting the limits of that strategy.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is not about technology. It is about power. About who owns the new\u003cbr\u003eeconomy, how completely they own it, and why the governments that would need to\u003cbr\u003erespond are structurally prevented from doing so.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the Gilded Age, the French Revolution, and the present-day architecture\u003cbr\u003eof AI ownership, The Uncomfortable Elite makes a single, cold argument to the\u003cbr\u003epowerful: the window for voluntary redistribution is closing. History shows what\u003cbr\u003efills the gap when it does.\u003cbr\u003eThe outcome is not determined. The window is open.\u003cbr\u003eThe question is whether the people who must act will move in time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890839404695,"sku":"9798198155695","price":866.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798198155695.webp?v=1781181554","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-uncomfortable-elite-the-threat-of-inaction-why-doing-nothing-is-the-ultimate-power-move-9798198155695","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}