The Scarcity Premium

A GRIPPING TECHNO-THRILLER FOR THE AGE OF OBSOLESCENCEAs the global economy enters a catastrophic free-fall, The Scarcity Premium follows four families caught in the hollowing out of the American dream:The Architect: Marcus Brennan retreats to a hardened compound in Montana, realizing that a bunker is only as safe as the community surrounding it.The Displaced: David Garcia, a senior manager with a perfect credit score, watches his career evaporate before being funneled into a gig economy that is itself being automated out of existence.The Builder: Ray Washington, a union electrician, sees the physical world go dark as digital office buildings are abandoned. Meanwhile, his son Jamal—holding a suddenly worthless computer science degree—finds himself on the frontlines of The Loom, fighting the machines before helping to build a new underground protocol.The Outsiders: Nnamdi and Priya, an immigrant developer and a data analyst, face the ultimate "Liquidity Snap" as their right to work and exist is revoked by the very algorithms they helped train.The math doesn’t negotiate.When the private credit markets seize and the wealth of the global elite turns into a liability, the thin veneer of civilization begins to crack. From the boardrooms of Park Avenue to the decentralized "Mesh" networks of the Oakland underground, The Scarcity Premium is a clinical, high-tension exploration of what happens when the machines can do everything—and the people are left with nothing but their hands.The dollar is dead. The old world is insolvent. The only thing left to trade is competence.