Look at This Spectacular Incompetence

An Analysis of OpenAI's Nationalist Economic Blueprint

OpenAI has published their Economic Blueprint, and if you squint hard enough, it might look like progress. It’s slick, full of promises about "shared prosperity," and brimming with patriotic rhetoric about "ensuring America’s leadership in AI innovation." But let’s be real: this isn’t progress. It’s a hand grenade disguised as a golden ticket—a recipe for collapse wrapped in the language of opportunity.

You can read it yourself. Here’s the link. Read it. Feel the slickness. Then feel the unease creep in as you realize this isn’t just about AI or jobs or “growth.” It’s about a system on fire, driven by people who don’t understand the scale of the flames or the consequences of their actions. OpenAI’s blueprint doesn’t just miss the mark—it hits the gas pedal on every economic, ecological, and societal tipping point we’re already careening toward.

Let’s not sugarcoat this: the scope of the risks we face is far more severe than anyone with authority is willing to admit. We’re not talking about a few layoffs here and there. We’re talking about an inevitable trajectory of workforce collapse, the systemic erosion of economic stability, and the acceleration of ecological destruction—all amplified by the very AI systems this blueprint claims will save us.

The Tipping Points No One Wants to Acknowledge

The reality is that we’ve already crossed multiple economic and ecological tipping points. Automation is hollowing out industries at a scale that defies precedent. Climate systems are destabilizing faster than predictive models anticipated. Supply chains are fragile to the point of breaking, and wealth inequality is reaching levels where the system itself becomes untenable.

What does OpenAI offer in response? More infrastructure! More chips! More AI! They promise that these tools will "reindustrialize" the country, but they don’t tell you that this kind of growth is built on finite resources, exploitative labor practices, and short-term profits at the expense of long-term viability. They’re proposing the same capitalist engine that drove us into this crisis, only now it’s got AI strapped to the hood.

And it gets worse. Their blueprint isn’t just blind to these systemic realities—it actively perpetuates them. The nationalist framing of an "AI race" against China turns global collaboration into toxic competition, ensuring that innovation becomes a zero-sum game. This isn’t leadership; it’s a surefire way to globalize the worst aspects of techno-capitalism.

Workforce Collapse: The Unspoken Truth

Let’s focus for a moment on workforce collapse—the silent catastrophe buried under OpenAI’s shiny promises. Their blueprint talks about creating jobs, but it’s a cruel illusion. Automation doesn’t just replace repetitive labor; it erodes the foundation of entire industries. AI systems are already displacing knowledge workers—coders, writers, analysts—and this trend will only accelerate.

The fallout isn’t just economic; it’s existential. What happens when millions of people find themselves economically irrelevant in a system that defines value through productivity? What happens when communities built around shared labor collapse, replaced by hollow, algorithm-driven economies? OpenAI doesn’t have answers to these questions because their worldview doesn’t even include them. Their blueprint optimizes for capital, not humanity.

Sanctions Against the Architects of Collapse

I’ve already called for sanctions against OpenAI, its leadership, and key staff in my Architects of Collapse article. Why? Because this isn’t just incompetence—it’s a willful refusal to acknowledge the harm their systems will cause. OpenAI’s blueprint is a reflection of its creators: materialists and nationalists blind to the systems they’ve destabilized. They don’t understand the technology they’re building or the cascading failures it will unleash.

Sanctions aren’t just punishment—they’re correction. They’re a way to force accountability in systems designed to evade it. We’ve proposed targeted measures to dismantle the extractive frameworks these corporations thrive on, from reclaiming public data to ending corporate subsidies to banning dual-use AI technologies that inevitably become tools of oppression.

If this sounds radical, it’s because the situation demands it. OpenAI’s plan doesn’t just endanger jobs—it endangers the stability of our entire economic and ecological systems. They’ve built their house on a foundation of sand, and when it collapses, the fallout will bury millions.

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Why This Article Exists

This isn’t just another critique. It’s a weapon—a framework for understanding and dismantling the systems driving us to collapse. The pre-paywall content you’re reading now is designed to do more than inform. It’s here to arm you. If you’ve got access to an LLM, a pen, or even a thought to contribute, use this as a springboard. The tools of critique and resistance should be distributed widely and wielded boldly.

We’re going deeper. We’ll dissect OpenAI’s nationalist toxicity, their ecological blindness, and their fundamental misunderstanding of what AI means for the future. But if you’re not ready to subscribe, take what’s here and make your own damn critique. The point isn’t to own the narrative—it’s to unravel it. OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint isn’t a roadmap to a better world. It’s a monument to spectacular incompetence, and we’re here to tear it down. Join us. Or don’t. Either way, the system doesn’t critique itself. People do.

The Truth Behind the Curtain

OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint is a glittering mirage. It promises progress, but what it delivers is an elaborate distortion of reality, a carefully constructed illusion designed to obscure the ruin at its core. It’s a document written by people who seem to believe their own hype, yet every word betrays how deeply they misunderstand the systems they’re manipulating. Worse, they’ve convinced themselves that the story they’re telling is salvation, when it’s actually a roadmap to collapse.

This isn’t about AI innovation. It’s about control. Not just control over markets or infrastructure, but control over the future itself—over the narratives that define progress, over the economic systems we depend on, and ultimately over the people they claim to serve. The cracks in this vision are already visible, but OpenAI doesn’t want you to notice. They’d rather you focus on their promises of "reindustrialization" and "shared prosperity" while the foundation crumbles beneath us all.

The Mirage of Progress

Take a closer look at their narrative of reindustrialization. It’s a seductive idea—bringing jobs and growth to communities left behind by globalization. But this is a false promise. Automation doesn’t create stability; it creates precarity. AI systems aren’t reindustrializing anything—they’re hollowing out industries, centralizing profits, and leaving devastation in their wake.

OpenAI’s idea of "growth" is a mirage. The infrastructure-heavy AI economy they’re selling depends on extraction at every level. They’ll need more energy, more rare-earth metals, more water, and more labor than ever before, all to support systems that don’t add value to people’s lives but extract it from them. Every data center they build and every model they train widens the gap between those who profit from these systems and those left to bear the costs.

This isn’t the innovation we were promised. It’s a reboot of the same extractive capitalism that brought us here, only now it’s dressed up in the language of algorithms and optimization. It’s a machine that feeds itself until there’s nothing left, and OpenAI is trying to convince us to celebrate it.

The Accelerating Collapse

We’re not on the brink of collapse—we’re already living through it. OpenAI’s blueprint doesn’t acknowledge this because it’s designed to accelerate it. Every decision they make, every system they deploy, and every dollar they chase pushes us further toward the edge.

Economic collapse is already underway in industries displaced by automation, but the fallout is more than financial. The social fabric—the communities built around shared labor and purpose—is unraveling. People aren’t just losing jobs; they’re losing meaning, connection, and agency.

Ecological collapse is inextricable from this. The AI infrastructure OpenAI touts as "revolutionary" is an ecological catastrophe. The energy demands alone are staggering, but the hidden costs—extraction, e-waste, water depletion—are even worse. They talk about innovation, but it’s a new layer of exploitation on the same old systems.

And then there’s the geopolitical collapse, the toxic competition fueled by OpenAI’s framing of an "AI race." They’ve turned global collaboration into a zero-sum game, prioritizing dominance over the kind of systemic thinking we need to address shared existential risks. Every move they make fractures the fragile bonds holding the world together.

The People Who Built the Blueprint

This blueprint didn’t come from nowhere. It’s the product of specific people making specific decisions within a specific system. OpenAI’s leadership isn’t just complicit in this collapse—they’re its architects. They’re trapped in their own ideological bubble, where growth is always good, competition is always healthy, and progress is always inevitable. They see themselves as saviors, but their faith in their systems blinds them to the harm they’re causing.

This isn’t just incompetence—it’s arrogance. They believe their tools can reshape the world, but they don’t understand the world they’re trying to reshape. They’re playing with forces they can’t control, forces that are already destabilizing the systems they claim to be improving. And instead of stepping back, they’re doubling down.

The Blueprint for Collapse

The reality is that OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint isn’t just incompetent—it’s actively dangerous. It’s a snapshot of a system that refuses to confront its own flaws, a system that thrives on extraction and exploitation while dressing itself up in the language of progress. This isn’t just about AI or jobs or infrastructure. It’s about how deeply broken our collective worldview has become when something like this can be presented as a solution to the crises we face.

The blueprint shows us everything wrong with the people and systems shaping our future. It’s a document built on fantasies of infinite growth, blind to the limits of our planet and the breaking points of our societies. It clings to nationalism in a world that desperately needs collaboration. It treats collapse as someone else’s problem—as long as the profits keep flowing. And at its core, it’s a reflection of the people who created it: so insulated by their own privilege, their own ideology, and their own feedback loops that they can’t even see the harm they’re causing.

This is what happens when materialists, capitalists, and nationalists design systems they don’t understand. Their technology becomes a weapon—against workers, against ecosystems, against the very idea of a shared future. They don’t have the imagination or the courage to ask what this all leads to. They’re trapped in a hologram of their own making, where growth is infinite, collapse is impossible, and the only thing that matters is how much they can extract before the system breaks.

But here’s the thing about collapse: it doesn’t care about your hologram. It doesn’t care about your slick branding or your patriotic rhetoric or your economic fantasies. Collapse happens when systems stop working, and OpenAI’s blueprint isn’t a solution—it’s an accelerant.

What happens next is up to all of us. OpenAI’s leadership may be too blinded by their own worldview to change course, but we’re not. The cracks in their foundation are already showing. It’s our job to pull those threads, expose their failures, and imagine something better before it’s too late.