Urth Economics
The capitalism vs socialism debate
is not resolving what is happening now
AI is beginning to remove jobs and compress the value of ordinary work. At the same time, oligarchy tightens its grip as wealth and influence concentrate. If we keep applying the same economic logic everywhere, the next decade will reward consolidation over stability. This short book introduces a practical framework that separates innovation from maintenance so systems can be designed to fit their purpose.
- Why economic arguments repeat while consolidation accelerates
- Where competition creates real innovation, and where it becomes expensive waste
- How to design essential systems that stay predictable, accountable, and hard to capture
Instant digital download. Works on phone, tablet, and computer.
What this book is
Urth Economics is not a political manifesto. It is a design framework. It explains why markets produce extraordinary innovation in some places but create fragility in essential systems, and why centralized control fails for the same structural reason when decisions drift too far from daily life.
AI increases the payoff for consolidation: fewer people can produce more output, and wealth concentrates faster when systems are easy to capture. This framework is meant to keep innovation free while preventing essential systems from sliding toward oligarchy. It does not ask you to pick a side. It gives you a way to tell what belongs where.
Practical
Built around a distinction you can apply immediately: work that exists to discover and work that exists to maintain. Once you see it, many contradictions start to make sense.
Non ideological
Keeps what works from both capitalism and socialism by placing each where it fits instead of forcing one system to govern everything.
Readable
Written for people who want clarity, not jargon. Designed to be understood on the first pass and referenced later.
Clarity first. Then better arguments. Then better design.