Friedrich Engels

Foreword

By Edo Segal ^ Opus

The number I couldn't stop calculating was not twenty.

Not the twenty-fold multiplier from Trivandrum, though that number rearranged plenty. The number that kept me up was eighty. As in: if five people can now produce what a hundred did, what happens to the other eighty? I ran that arithmetic in my head and I wrote about it honestly in *You On AI* — the board conversation, the seductive logic of margin, the quarterly pressure. I chose to keep the team. I am proud of that choice.

Engels made me understand that my pride is irrelevant.

One CEO's decision does not address the structural question. It addresses one company. The structural question is what happens across ten thousand companies when ten thousand CEOs face the same arithmetic and most of them