<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The public debate about the economic future keeps... > The public debate about the economic future keeps circling the same question: **distribution**. Universal basic income, universal high income, some stipend meant to catch everyone the machines displace — the premise underneath is that the future arrives as a check. But the evening's small event points to a different pathway, one in which the economic question is not who gets what slice but who gets **leverage**: {{The most likely future is not an allowance; it is leverage — agents helping ordinary people build small businesses, navigate bureaucracies, and begin what they have always wanted but never known how to start.}} The pattern is already visible in miniature: a candle business planned with a tireless collaborator, a divorce navigated with a research assistant working the night shift, one person operating with a chief of staff. **Source:** [[wired/The Courthouse Email|The Courthouse Email]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The public debate about the economic future keeps circling the same question: distribution. Universal basic income, universal high income, some stipend meant to catch everyone the machines displace — the premise underneath is that the future arrives as a check. But the evening's small event points to a different pathway, one in which the economic question is not who gets what slice but who gets leverage: The most likely future is not an allowance; it is leverage — agents helping ordinary people build small businesses, navigate bureaucracies, and begin what they have always wanted but never known how to start. The pattern is already visible in miniature: a candle business planned with a tireless collaborator, a divorce navigated with a research assistant working the night shift, one person operating with a chief of staff.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-public-debate-economic-operating-chief-staff ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->