Charles Hugh Smith Archives

Will You Be Richer or Poorer?: Profit, Power and A.I. in a Traumatized World

Will you be richer or poorer? What does the future hold for you – and for the world? Supposedly, we’re all getting richer, but many of us feel we’re becoming poorer. Why? One reason is our economy doesn’t even measure many kinds of wealth and ignores many costs. Clearly, clean air and water, good health, […]

Another Conversation with Charles Hugh Smith

SpokenTome.Media’s Mark E. Jeftovic catches up with Charles Hugh Smith. Topics ranged from PropOrNot’s anonymous, unsourced hit piece on …pretty well everybody, to populism, Yellow Vests, so-called “Democratic Socialism” and a new economic fairy tale called Modern Monetary Theory (“MMT”). Since our last episode we’ve released three more CHS audiobooks: Money and Work Unchained Inequality […]

Pathfinding Our Destiny by Charles Hugh Smith

America teeters on the precipice: our government is now captive to special interests and big money, twin cancers that threaten our democracy. This accelerating crisis is exacerbated by a toxic social media-fueled tribalism that has replaced “what do you think?” with “which side are you on?” Our crisis isn’t just political – it’s structural: as […]

Money and Work Unchained by Charles Hugh Smith

The current conventional-wisdom view of our soon-to-be future is rose-tinted: Automation will free millions of people from the drudgery of work, then by taxing the robots doing all the work, we can pay everyone universal basic income (UBI), enabling a life of leisure and artistic pursuit for all. The result: a future of universal […]

Inequality and the Collapse of Privilege by Charles Hugh Smith

Inequality is rising globally, and rising inequality is destabilizing. A status quo of increasing inequality self-destructs. To avoid this fate, we must answer this question: Why is the gulf between the wealthy and everyone else widening so dramatically? The answer boils down to one word: privilege. What is privilege? There are many types of privilege, […]

Charles Hugh Smith

Will You Be Richer or Poorer?: Profit, Power and A.I. in a Traumatized World

Another Conversation with Charles Hugh Smith

Pathfinding Our Destiny by Charles Hugh Smith

Money and Work Unchained by Charles Hugh Smith

Inequality and the Collapse of Privilege by Charles Hugh Smith

Why Our Status Quo Has Failed and is Beyond Reform

A Radically Beneficial World by Charles Hugh Smith

Conversation with Charles Hugh Smith: A Radically Beneficial World