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The modern world still works. Capital moves. Software runs. Markets clear. But the deeper shift isn’t failure—it’s conditionality. Liquidity that once felt instantaneous now reveals gates. Policy that sounded permanent behaves more like a renewable window. Security stops being a wall and becomes a chain of trusted permissions, where legitimacy itself becomes portable.
What’s emerging underneath isn’t chaos. It’s gravity.
AI expands intelligence, but it cannot escape the physical layer that sustains it—energy, infrastructure, materials, and land. The digital economy doesn’t replace the analog world. It rests on top of it. And as intelligence becomes abundant, scarcity concentrates in atoms, not bits.
This is where Jungle Law quietly returns. Systems hold as long as incentives align, capacity exists, and trust remains intact. When those conditions shift, behavior reorganizes—not because anyone declares it, but because survival demands it.
The Greater Debate widens the lens further, confronting whether decline is structural inevitability or human contingency. And Invent Again reminds us that the modern world itself was built by those who understood this dynamic—that progress doesn’t eliminate risk, it contains it.
Because beneath markets, beneath policy, beneath software—gravity still applies. And gravity always wins.
00:00 Introduction to Wealth and Means
01:51 What You Didn’t See in the News: Did Somebody Say Tariffs?
14:14 Wake Up Ready: Systems Stabilizing
25:33 Knowledge Bomb: The Analog Fortress
27:44 Humor Me: The Jungle Book for Adults
31:48 The Great(er) Debate: Human Choices in History's Cycles
40:05 Let's Invent Again: Smaller Tubes for a Bigger Job
47:18 Closing Thoughts and Reflections
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