“ The problem with the status quo “ Work hard, play hard” has been the overeager is that it isn’t static. It’s always motto of a generation in training for… what?—drawing hearts in cappuccino getting worse.” foam or plugging names and numbers into databases. The gleaming tech no-future of -from a talk with Paul Mason at !e Guardian Live, July 23, 2015 American capitalism was long ago packed up and sold to China for a few more years of borrowed junk. A university diploma is now worth no more than a share in General Motors. “ We’re not only talking about three and a We work and we borrow in order to work and half million truck drivers who may soon to borrow. Meanwhile, what we acquire isn’t lack careers. We’re talking about inventory education; it’s debt.” managers, economists, financial advisers, real estate agents.” -Communiqué from an Absent Future, 2009 -!e Great AI Awakening, !e New York Times, December 15, 2016 29