"The economy didn't crash. It was out-optimized." In Part 15 of AI Futures, we explore the Collapse of the Consumer Base. For a century, the engine of growth was a simple loop: Labor leads to Wages, which lead to Spending. But what happens to the global market when a $150K salary is replaced by a $2 AI token?

In this episode, we discuss:

• The Velocity Gap: Why money saved on "tokens" doesn't circulate like money paid in "salaries."
• Inertia vs. Growth: How profits are migrating upstream into corporate treasuries and GPUs—where they sit motionless.
• The Demand Paradox: Why the same efficiency that boosts quarterly margins is quietly starving the customer base needed to sustain them.

We aren't just ...