American law was built to see one kind of harm — the kind that shows up on a balance sheet.

Our institutions stopped seeing the people inside them. The legal frameworks, the corporate forms, and the metrics were built to count money with precision and to be blind to almost everything else. The structures were built to produce this outcome, and they are producing it.

AI inherited the blindness, and is using it to transfer power from the people the systems act on to the corporations that own them.

This book presents a reckoning with the constitutional, corporate, and cultural choices that left regular people unprotected and without a unified voice.

The book asks — and answers — what we owe each other.