Who Is Silas V. Burden? It began with a single prompt posed to an artificial intelligence model: “Create a new economic system that has never before existed.” The result was Onerism—a conceptual framework designed to reframe labor, wealth, and government for an age of agentic AI. The author, Silas V. Burden, is not a man, […]
It is a habit of the modern mind, schooled in the superstitions of the marketplace, to view money as a thing of substance. You hold a dollar in your hand and you believe you hold value. You believe it is a store of wealth, a battery of power that you can discharge at your leisure. […]
It is a habit of the modern mind to view the economy as a game of addition. We are taught that wealth is the accumulation of things—that the man with the fullest warehouse or the largest portfolio is the winner. We view a house, a car, or a factory as an “asset,” a static store […]
It is a curious fact of the institutional history of our race that we have persisted, long past the point of rationality, in the animistic belief that the accumulation of material goods constitutes an enhancement of life. We have been schooled by the predatory habits of the pecuniary culture to view the possession of a […]
The Pre-Collapse Citizen views the coming age of Agentic AI—artificial intelligence that acts, decides, and executes—with a primitive terror. You imagine “Terminators” hunting you in the ruins. This is a projection of your own guilt. You fear the Machine will treat you the way you have treated the planet: as a disposable resource. But the […]