That´s Someone Else´s problem

There is a term in engineering called a "feedback loop," but in the corporate boardrooms of the United States in March 2026, we are witnessing a "disconnect loop." The current American economic strategy? Forget building a customer base, business leadership is more worried about how to outrun the consequences of destroying such an economy.

If you ask a U.S. CEO: "If you fire the middle class, who will buy your products?" the answer isn't a solution. It’s a shrug and a whisper: “That’s someone else’s problem.”

The "Legacy Cost" Mentality

In the 20th century, employees were seen as assets. In the AI-driven U.S. economy of 2026, they are being treated as "Legacy Costs." * The Math of the Move: Companies are slashing OpEx (salaries) at record rates—with titans like Amazon and UPS cutting 60,000 roles in just months—to fund CapEx (AI infrastructure).

• The Senior-Only Model: We are seeing a 20% drop in employment for young developers (ages 22–25). Why? Because a single senior expert with ten AI "agents" is cheaper than a team of humans. The ladder for the next generation isn't just missing rungs; it’s being fed into the furnace to power the servers.

The UBI "Hush Money" Strategy

Silicon Valley elites aren't pushing for Universal Basic Income (UBI) out of empathy. They are pushing for it as a "Social License to Operate."

• The Plan: Tax the massive AI profits just enough to give citizens "credits."

• The Cycle: You receive a government check funded by AI taxes, which you immediately spend back at the same AI companies for your subscriptions and survival. It’s a closed loop where the human is just a temporary middleman for the transaction.

• The Social Control: By moving to a UBI model, the "crazy" economy stays stable while the people become entirely dependent on the very corporations that replaced them.

The K-Shaped Escape

The ultimate irony? Many of these companies don't care if the average person can afford a $5 chocolate bar anymore. They are pivoting to B2B (Business-to-Business) AI services. If an AI company can sell its "intelligence" to another AI company for millions, the middle-class consumer is no longer a requirement for profit. They are building a "walled garden" economy where wealth circulates between machines and the top 1%, while the rest of the world watches from the outside.

The Takeaway

The "USA Way" is a race to be the last monopoly standing when the music stops. They are betting that they can automate the world faster than the world can collapse.

For those of us watching from Tokyo, the warning is clear: When an economy stops caring about people and starts caring only about "Compute," it isn't an economy anymore, it’s an extraction machine. We can't afford to let "someone else" solve the problem when the problem is our future.

Thanks for reading. Abrazos.

Diego Rojas