The growing gap between productivity growth and inflation = far more money being stolen from society to “solve” centralized problems created because of centralized systems.
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The productivity-compensation gap maps almost perfectly to 1971 — the year the last constraint on money creation was removed. Since then, real wages decoupled from output while the financial sector's share of GDP tripled. The gap isn't a bug, it's the mechanism by which purchasing power transfers from producers to money-adjacent institutions. What happens to that gap when AI accelerates productivity 10x but the monetary system remains unchanged?