Introducing
TheMissionfor America
An economic and political plan to thrive in the age of AI. As AI eliminates entire categories of work, humanity's future is not sitting at home collecting subsistence checks, but mobilizing to build a clean economy that provides prosperity, security, and freedom for all.
An economic and political plan to thrive in the age of AI.
As AI eliminates entire categories of work, humanity's future is not sitting at home collecting subsistence checks, but mobilizing to build a clean economy that provides prosperity, security, and freedom for all.
How We
Fell
We used to build industries, infrastructure, and institutions to make life richer and more secure for each new generation.
Then our leaders became possessed by an idea: that working together as a nation toward economic goals was a mistake. They shut down our economic coordination and investment institutions and let millions of high-paying jobs slip away.
How We Get
Back Up
The Mission for America is a playbook for total economic mobilization — modeled on the U.S. economic mobilization for World War II. In this model, private and public sector leaders and institutions work together to transform and grow the economy. The economy is not centrally planned, but rather guided by a shared vision and a commitment to the goal of creating prosperity, security, and freedom for all.
Everything is About to Change
Technology has been automating away jobs since long before AI. That's why real wages for the bottom half of U.S. workers stagnated for decades as GDP skyrocketed. Until now, lost jobs have been replaced by new jobs in the low-wage service economy or “bullshit” administrative jobs. AI now presents an unprecedented challenge: the new industries that AI makes possible will be staffed by AI, not by humans. They will not offset job losses caused by AI.
Soon, the professional managerial class will be sitting at home, unable to make their house payments. A huge chunk of the working class will be unemployed as collateral damage, even if their jobs were not automated.
Whoever becomes president in 2029 will need a plan to radically restructure the economy — not to send out UBI checks, but to organize necessary, meaningful, and high-paying work for all, in a mobilization to achieve humanity's oldest dream: A fair, sustainable economy that provides prosperity, security, and freedom for everyone on earth. The Mission for America is that plan.
Our Work
Projects
Mission for America
A ten-year national mobilization for a clean economy with prosperity, security, and freedom for all, in 23 chapters on energy, industry, transport.
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Three Plans for a Wealth Tax
Jubilee 2029
How to pay for the mobilization the world needs, and strike a blow at inequality. Three proposals, from a Global Jubilee to the billionaire tax.
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A Health Care System for America
America's problem isn't insurance. It's a health care shortage sold at monopoly prices. Build capacity, set prices, cover everyone, spend less.
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Project 2029
How a president builds public support for the Mission for America in the first two years, using only executive power and budget reconciliation.
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CrashLab
The AI bubble is about to burst, and another bailout isn't the answer. CrashLab explains the bubble's dynamics and our options for when it crashes.
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The Won't Get Fooled Again Act
A framework for converting failed banks and AI companies into mission-driven public institutions.
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What's New About
the New Consensus?
New Consensus is an agile think tank focused on designing comprehensive, detailed plans for governments to achieve economic renewal and transformation. Our Guiding Principle: It is possible to create a world where the people of every nation and community control the means to sustainably make a prosperous living. Humanity has everything it needs to build that world in a single generation: billions of creative and hard working people, technology that would allow us to make a comfortable living sustainably if deployed, and virtually unlimited clean energy just waiting to be harnessed.