Beyond Left and Right

For centuries political debate oscillated between two poles. The left emphasised redistribution and collective guarantees; the right prioritised markets, ownership, and enterprise. Both frames assume that human labour is the engine of value.

In an AI-first economy those assumptions break. Redistribution conversations falter when wealth is generated by autonomous systems rather than wage labour. Ownership framings crumble when monopolies consolidate the means of intelligence itself.

The Empowerment Economy rejects the binary. It centres a new question: how do humans secure survival, dignity, and sovereignty when AI systems dominate production? The answer lies in a paradigm that retools guarantees, distributes agency, and treats abundance as a shared inheritance rather than a private moat.