Wealth Systems

Wealth Systems

Why AI and Robotics Are About to Break the Economic Model

Disinflationary Boom Like Never Before

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Matt McDonagh
Nov 21, 2025
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Our economic reality is changing faster than society is.

I spent the first part of my career on Wall Street.

It was the classic path. I started in investment banking and learned the grinding mechanics of capital markets. I moved to the buy-side and co-founded a hedge fund. That was where the world really opened up for me.

We weren’t just picking stocks. We were building systems. We built software to machine-read financial statements and ingest massive amounts of data to find the signal in the noise.

That experience did two things.

First, it made me fall in love with building technology. It pushed me into a fifteen-year journey through software development, corporate strategy, and operations.

Second, it taught me that the economy is just a system. It is a massive, complex, noisy machine with inputs and outputs. If you understand the inputs, you can predict the outputs.

Most people look at the economic machine right now and see disaster. They see debt. They see demographic collapse. They see s…

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