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Bregman delivers a rare LUCID analysis that explicitly acknowledges AI will eliminate aggregate labor demand ('the machines do the work... the people who own the machines no longer need the rest of us. Not as workers, not as soldiers, not as taxpayers'). He directly names the rentier mechanism - 'the productivity gains were captured by capital, shareholders and a rentier class' - and warns of 'universal poverty in a world of unimaginable abundance.' This is NOT cope; it's the Discontinuity Thesis stated plainly with historical and economic evidence.