The Sovereign Neganthropic Economy - How to Build an Economy When Human Labour Becomes Obsolete

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contents <p><span lang="EN-GB">Preprint - manuscript under review</span></p> <p><span lang="EN-GB">High-income societies are undergoing a historic inversion: population is changing from strategic asset to thermodynamic liability. Declining fossil-fuel EROI, accelerating automation, and the fiscal collapse of labour-based states are making demographic contraction the inevitable correction of a system that over-invested in people during a brief energy windfall. This essay outlines the institutional form suited to an era of biophysical limits and machine abundance: the <strong>Sovereign Neganthropic Economy</strong>. It advocates deliberate transition toward smaller, debt-free, high-technology polities that publicly own robotic and algorithmic capital, issue money against energy surplus rather than future growth, and redirect human time from wage-labour to entropy-reducing activities (care, research, restoration). The argument confronts the political agency required, the uncertainty of full automation, and the dangerous global consequences of unmanaged contraction in the ageing Core.</span></p>
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spellingShingle The Sovereign Neganthropic Economy - How to Build an Economy When Human Labour Becomes Obsolete
Humm, Philipp
Superintelligence; Artificial General Intelligence; Posthumanism; AI Ethics; Beyond the Human; Neganthropic Economy; Automation Obsolescence; Thermodynamic Limits; Public Policy
Economics
Political sciences
Political economy
Natural sciences
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Preprint - manuscript under review</span></p> <p><span lang="EN-GB">High-income societies are undergoing a historic inversion: population is changing from strategic asset to thermodynamic liability. Declining fossil-fuel EROI, accelerating automation, and the fiscal collapse of labour-based states are making demographic contraction the inevitable correction of a system that over-invested in people during a brief energy windfall. This essay outlines the institutional form suited to an era of biophysical limits and machine abundance: the <strong>Sovereign Neganthropic Economy</strong>. It advocates deliberate transition toward smaller, debt-free, high-technology polities that publicly own robotic and algorithmic capital, issue money against energy surplus rather than future growth, and redirect human time from wage-labour to entropy-reducing activities (care, research, restoration). The argument confronts the political agency required, the uncertainty of full automation, and the dangerous global consequences of unmanaged contraction in the ageing Core.</span></p>
title The Sovereign Neganthropic Economy - How to Build an Economy When Human Labour Becomes Obsolete
topic Superintelligence; Artificial General Intelligence; Posthumanism; AI Ethics; Beyond the Human; Neganthropic Economy; Automation Obsolescence; Thermodynamic Limits; Public Policy
Economics
Political sciences
Political economy
Natural sciences
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17989210