By Futurist Thomas Frey
The phrase gets thrown around a lot right now. “AI is killing capitalism.” You hear it in tech circles, in economic policy debates, in late-night conversations between people who sense something fundamental is shifting but can’t quite name it.
They’re not wrong that something is shifting. But “killing capitalism” isn’t quite the right frame. What’s actually happening is more interesting and more complicated than that — and understanding it matters, because the transition we’re entering will be one of the most disorienting periods in economic history regardless of what we call it at the end.
Let me try to be precise about what’s actually breaking.
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