Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

The Future of the Future

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Matt McDonagh
Apr 16, 2026
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Scarcity is a lie sold to the weak by the powerful.

How can we be constantly compounding scientific and technological improvements across a societal scale, now with AI and super computers, and not be in a Utopian state of advancement?

Why isn’t power near-zero cost?

Why isn’t the technological force of deflation pushing all prices downward toward zero?

One answer: the money printer never stops, so our currency (and our time) is constantly debased, too. If you print enough, you open up surface area that spreads the technological gains out and we don’t see deflation.

Do it more, we see inflation.

That’s right. Inflation is an engineered phenomena. The elite are stealing our lives, by draining our time through debasement of our currency.

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a year ago · 9 likes · 2 comments · Matt McDonagh

As I said, the money printer is just one answer. It actually gets worse than just our money being used against us. More things than money are being engineered in opposition to our flourishing as a species.

For fifty years human progress has been artificially…

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