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How to Replace Perpetual Growth with Productive Prosperity. Learn more.

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The Infinite Debt Problem

How to Replace Perpetual Growth with Productive Prosperity

Author
Ylia Callan
Published
2026-08-12
Category
Economics • Public Finance • Policy
ISBN
979-8-23578-956-2
Formats
PDF • EPUB • Audiobook
Version
0.8.0

Book Description

The financial system demands endless growth on a finite planet. A $100 loan at 5% becomes $13,000 in a century. The solution? The Productivity Bond – a revolutionary instrument that rewards efficiency, not expansion. This is the blueprint for a sustainable financial future.

We have built a financial system that makes promises about an unlimited future on a planet with limits. That's the contradiction at the heart of modern finance. Global debt has climbed from $50 trillion to over $300 trillion in four decades – an exponential curve. Meanwhile, resource extraction is flattening. Two lines, two opposing stories. The gap between them is The Infinite Debt Problem.

This isn't a doom-and-gloom book. It's a practical, market-based solution and redesign for the financial system itself. Replace fixed-rate sovereign debt – which demands perpetual growth – with the Productivity Bond, an instrument whose return is linked to measurable improvements in efficiency.

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Productivity-Linked
Rewards efficiency
🛡️
Countercyclical
Lower in bad years
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Productivity Dividend
Universal payments
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Finite Planet
Ecological limits

⚡ How the Productivity Bond Works

  • CPI‑linked
  • Share of NPI gains
  • Real floor 0%
  • Cap 5%
  • Countercyclical
  • Principal adjustment
Cost Saving
3.1%
vs conventional
Optimal Share
30%
in portfolio
AI Capture
>30%
θ_AI threshold
Distress Reduction
25.9%
hybrid version

🤖 The AI Paradox

AI could vault us over the Four Walls (demographic, productivity, resource, ecological) – or break the financial system by concentrating wealth and breaking the link between work and income. The Productivity Dividend ensures everyone benefits from the AI revolution.

🔑 Key Themes

Productivity Bond Infinite Debt Problem Sovereign Debt Reform Financial Redesign AI Dividend UBI Countercyclical Finance National Productivity Index Sustainable Finance Steady-State Economy

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INTRODUCTION – The Chart That Changed Everything
Chapter 1 – The Problem
Chapter 2 – Introducing the Productivity Bond
Chapter 3 – The Productivity Dividend
Chapter 4 – No Infinite Compounding
Chapter 5 – Productivity Instead of Extraction
Chapter 6 – The AI Dividend
Chapter 7 – The Economy of Enough
Chapter 8 – The First Productivity Bond
Chapter 9 – The Transition
Chapter 10 – The New Social Contract
Chapter 11 – The Roadmap
Chapter 12 – CONCLUSION
Chapter 13 – The Ancient Problem of Debt
Chapter 14 – THE Birth of Compound Growth
Chapter 15 – The Great Expansion
Chapter 16 – When Growth Became the Answer
Chapter 17 – The Arithmetic of Tomorrow
Chapter 18 – The Worker Who Wasn't There
Chapter 19 – Who Owns the Machines
Chapter 20 – The Strange Economics of Abundance
Chapter 21 – From Labour to Productivity
Chapter 22 – The Global Financial Architecture
Chapter 23 – Simulation Code and License

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