Journal of a Grassroots Economist

Journal of a Grassroots Economist

THE 2028 GLOBAL CARE CRISIS

A Thought Exercise in Relational History, from the Future

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Feb 26, 2026
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(note: this is a crisis for the stock market and the job market, but it is not a universal human disaster. It is a story about a mismatch between what markets measure and what communities can rebuild.)

Preface

What if abundant intelligence keeps doing what the optimists said it would do (and what if the thing that breaks is not humanity, but the business …

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