From the Collapse of Value to Distributed Capitalism: Autonomous Infrastructure, Socioeconomic Transition, and Humanist Longevity

Advances in Artificial Intelligence and the rapid expansion of robotics have begun to fracture the social contract of the industrial era, in which paid employment served as the primary mechanism for the distribution of wealth. In the face of structural unemployment and the imminent collapse of aggregate demand, dominant proposals, such as the Universal Basic Income (UBI) or tax regulation of automation, are doomed to fail by design, as they perpetuate dependence on the state or stifle technological development. This essay argues that the contemporary crisis is not one of technical scarcity or labour shortages, but rather of property architecture. Distributed Capitalism of Autonomous Assets is proposed as a pragmatic alternative: a model underpinned by Sovereign Acquisition Credit and anti-monopoly regulation of autonomous fleets, enabling households to become micro-owners of their delegated productive forces. It analyses how this scheme preserves the dynamism of the current market and the continued relevance of money, merely shifting the value standard from luxury consumption towards the market for longevity, precision medicine and the biological emancipation of human time.