Book angle
This chapter translates achievement culture, startup mythology, and class anxiety into a moral injury.
Why now
It is especially sharp for builder audiences living inside venture logic, algorithmic prestige, and permanent comparison.
Chapter references
- Chapter 7 - Founder or Loser
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FUTUROSHOCK: When Reality Gets Outsourced
Primary manuscript and conceptual spine for the entire atlas.
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
The route from discipline to self-managed control and internalized coercion.
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The cleanest diagnosis of privatized stress and the narrowing of political imagination.
Power and Progress
A long-view check on the social distribution of technological gains and losses.