This is exactly the conversation we need to be having.
The middle class is not just being “impacted” by AI. It was always a systemic function—part buffer, part myth, part subsidy. And now that function is dissolving.
Jobs are disappearing not because there’s no work left, but because the value chain has been digitized past the need for middle-tier cognition. We are witnessing the soft disintegration of economic legibility for millions of people whose roles were always more infrastructural than meritocratic.
I wrote about this collapse here:
🧾 The Middle Class is a Semi-Meritocratic Pseudo Universal Basic Income
This is exactly the conversation we need to be having.
The middle class is not just being “impacted” by AI. It was always a systemic function—part buffer, part myth, part subsidy. And now that function is dissolving.
Jobs are disappearing not because there’s no work left, but because the value chain has been digitized past the need for middle-tier cognition. We are witnessing the soft disintegration of economic legibility for millions of people whose roles were always more infrastructural than meritocratic.
I wrote about this collapse here:
🧾 The Middle Class is a Semi-Meritocratic Pseudo Universal Basic Income
https://sonderuncertainly.substack.com/p/the-middle-class-is-a-semi-meritocratic