Ai is not the end of jobs.
It is the end of capitalism.
Star Wars era doesn’t have corporates.
Not even in the movie.
There is a key point that President Trumps economic agenda misses to acknowledge. Is that the quest for land, people and resources is a battle not worthy of a fight. The real battle is the battle for population scale independence. And that is a battle America lost in 2019. By 2024, the loss had become irreversible. And as we head to September 2027, just eight years after Howdy Modi – the world will be a very different place.
The claim that AI will kill capitalism may sound extreme, but the underlying argument is serious. And its timeframe is short. Capitalism isn’t defined by markets alone—it’s defined by scarcity. Scarce labour, scarce skills, scarce information, and scarce coordination are what make wages, prices, and profits work. AI systematically removes these scarcities. Scarcity of capital is irrelevant for India. Capital can anyway do very little.
First, AI breaks the link between labour and income. Capitalism assumes most people earn by selling their labour. When intelligence becomes cheap and infinitely replicable, a growing share of value is created with near-zero human labour. Software, design, analysis, marketing, even research can be reproduced endlessly. When labour stops being scarce, wages stop working as the main way value is distributed. Capitalism without wages faces a distribution crisis.
Second, AI pushes marginal costs toward zero. Digital goods already did this, but AI extends it to services. If the cost of producing an additional unit of “work” collapses, pricing power erodes. Profits concentrate briefly with owners of compute, data, and models, but competition and open systems push margins down over time. Capitalism relies on sustainable margins; AI undermines them. 90% of the U.S. economy is really services. Not in India.
Third, AI centralises ownership while decentralising capability. A small number of actors control massive compute and infrastructure, while millions gain near-expert abilities. This creates extreme wealth concentration alongside widespread productive power—but without matching incomes. Capitalism remains politically stable only when economic participation is broad. AI breaks that balance.
Fourth, AI replaces markets with optimisation. Markets exist to coordinate activity under uncertainty. AI increasingly plans, predicts, and optimises directly—inside firms, supply chains, logistics, and pricing. Allocation shifts from price discovery to algorithmic control.
AI doesn’t destroy capitalism overnight. It hollows it out. What emerges is a hybrid system where capital remains powerful, income is partially detached from labour, and states redistribute access rather than produce directly. Capitalism was built for scarce intelligence. AI creates abundance—and abundance always forces a rewrite.
Most American flip burgers
Or their equivalent. Even today.
