Featured Analysis — Feb 19, 2026
Mainstream framing positions AI-driven unemployment as a technological shock requiring policy response. The structural evidence shows a different sequence: participation has been scaling faster than ownership for forty years. The current displacement is not a new failure — it is an existing failure becoming visible.
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Watch for the moment when consumption itself is no longer the universal participation lever — that is when the timing gap forecloses peaceful redistribution.
Structural finding: The immune system deploys participation resources without clearing the ownership condition that would allow it to stand down. The inflammation is not malfunction — it is correct behaviour in a structurally misaligned system.
Structural finding: The timing gap between participation (tenancy) and ownership accrual opened when Right-to-Buy was ended without replacement conversion mechanism. Two decades of compounding preceded the visible crisis.
Structural finding: Buybacks are mechanically equivalent to accelerated dormant ownership decay applied only to the non-insider fraction. The structure is not illegal — it is operating exactly as designed. The design is the failure mode.
Structural finding: The participation-ownership timing gap, sovereign override of family formation incentives, and moral free-riding on existing demographic capital are each consistent with the observable data. Evidence does not currently support naming one as dominant.
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