The Theory of the
Maintenance Class

Reimagining value, labor, and the future of economy in the age of Onerism.

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About Onerism

For centuries, we believed that "wealth" meant the accumulation of money. We built an economy on the infinite growth of disposable junk, fueling it with cheap oil and ignoring the mounting cost to our planet. We valued the salesman over the mechanic, the brand over the product, and the symbol over the substance.

But the laws of physics do not negotiate.

In this groundbreaking manifesto, Silas V. Burden argues that the age of Capitalism—the age of Waste—is drawing to a terminal close. As Artificial Intelligence automates our labor and the resource crisis shatters our supply chains, the old rules of money no longer apply. We are facing a stark choice: continue our slide into chaos, or embrace a new, harder, and more honest reality.

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