Foma File: Productivity Without Prosperity

Classification: Late-Stage Economic Foma · Technological · Institutional · Hypernormalised Status: Privately acknowledged · Publicly deferred · Structurally preserved I. The Core Foma The belief: Increased productivity leads to broadly shared prosperity. This belief was once conditionally true. It is now structurally false. The system continues to speak as if it remains valid. II. What Has Changed (Quietly Understood) AI dramatically increases productivity. This is not disputed. What is rarely stated plainly is that productivity gains now flow primarily to: ...

January 3, 2026