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Staff writer @TheAtlantic, author of "Give People Money," working a book called "The Time Tax." Not here often, please say hi on annie@theatlantic.com.
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The Problem America Refuses to Address

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By Annie Lowrey Verified
| Reader Supported News
In the age of the trillionaire, inequality remains a defining challenge. Robert Morris migrated from England to the American colonies as a teenager and established himself in the mercantile industry. During the Revolutionary War, his trading ships attacked British vessels and seized their cargo; after the conflict, the Founding Father became a millionaire, likely the country’s first. He later invested in frontier real estate—a good bet made too soon.
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The Age of the Trillionaire

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By Annie Lowrey Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
Robert Morris migrated from England to the American colonies as a teenager and established himself in the mercantile industry. During the Revolutionary War, his trading ships attacked British vessels and seized their cargo; after the conflict, the Founding Father became a millionaire, likely the country’s first. He later invested in frontier real estate—a good bet made too soon. Morris went bankrupt, spectacularly, and spent the years 1798 to 1801 incarcerated in a Philadelphia debtors’ prison.
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The Man Who Saw AI Coming

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By Annie Lowrey Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
More than a decade ago, the economist Erik Brynjolfsson made a prediction: AI would change everything. Humans began using tools millions of years ago. They cultivated grain and domesticated animals, and then developed written languages, iron tools, the printing press, gunpowder. Progress was slow and local until the mid-1700s, when modern society roared into being alongside machines and engines. Invention built on invention. Then, in recent decades, the pace of human progress slowed again.
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