Explore every session of The Long Council.
Government must create purchasing power directly when AI displaces workers faster than markets can absorb them.
China will likely overtake US GDP by 2030, but internal cohesion and institutional management matter more than raw economic size.
Emergency capacity requires local control over when emergencies justify production.
The Netherlands' wealth tax failed because it was implemented unilaterally in a world of mobile capital, but the council divides on whether coordinated international wealth taxation would succeed or simply spread the same fundamental proble…