I hear your fears of 45 and yes they are real…. but so is the weight of the system which is crushing my generation.

I spend my days working on Reg D financing, talking to angels, VCs and LPs while I enable physical automation which WILL unemployee millions. All of this is craved by the markets, they want this outcome badly.

This automation is showing up faster than you think and when done well is deceptively simple as to not raise the alarm of the dangers our economy and society face as technology + equity markets eats all the value from what used to be a human’s honest day of work.

Our form of capitalism will burn itself out. We either fight over the scraps (as we are now) OR we make a paradigm shift, we embrace more mixed models of economics and we take drastic action to reduce wealth inequality.

I’m working in THE part of the economy that eats the world, creating millionaires over night and billionaires in similar time-spans too. AND I’m denied access to the capital networks due to the color of my skin and the honesty of my approach.

If you don’t know Reg D you don’t know how stacked this system is. We literally have a very specific set of laws the ONLY always people of certain net worths to wield corporations effectively to amass wealth.

So then I’ve been forced (for the last 4yr) to beg for money from a class of investores who historically put only 5% of their dollars into any one other than a white male! Meanwhile EU investors do well over 20%. They have put less than 1% annually toward black females. These are the same people who brought you companies like Uber / Amazon / WeWork.

I’ve spoken to the CEO of Walmart, the first investor in Amazon and countless robotics companies & investors bringing “work back to America” (notice many no longer are saying JOBS). And when I ask them about their end game with robotics it ends the same place… no employees.

I have had a very unique set of experiences and I think you should see me as a canary in the coal mine, I’m suffocating over here in inequality.

None of this system was built for US and I’m about done with. I’ll automate the world and give the markets what it wants. A world with no humans needed to do work and we’ll come back to the question of what does capitalism matter any more.

So this is to say I’m crazy pessimistic about capitalism and THIS threatens the core of democracy.

I think it can never be self sustaining without frequent reform and an increase in empathetic leadership focused squarely on wealth inequality.

Nearly all other US problems can be affected by reforming American style capitalism.

I do see a world where the interplay of Democracy and Capitalism can work and it likely means borrowing Socialist ideals and adding it to this mix in equal parts.

I truly believe automation is a key requirement to enable humanity to survie climate change, operate supply chains and keep the world fed, clothed and health.

I want you ALL to have a say in how (OR IF) that happens to ensure it is fair. We frequently embrace new technologies in reckless ways and thats just not my style.

I want to move precisely and get it right!

So, to today’s question of who you should support in this DNC primary season. Hands down it can not be Biden.

I urge Sanders, Warren, Yang to unite around our shared concerns about the problems in capitalism and the threats of automation to consider supporting Bernie Sanders as the DNC nominee.

We must never forget the power a our dreams and I dream of a far America that works for everyone even if automation eats the world!

Reporting in from quarantined Seattle,

@nullagent