Episode
You Have Only X Years To Escape Permanent Moon Ownership
Astral Codex Ten Podcast · Jan 23, 2026 · 7 min
If you're not familiar with "X years to escape the permanent underclass", see the New Yorker here , or the Laine , Bear , and Trammell/Dwarkesh articles that inspired it. The "permanent underclass" meme isn't being spread by poor people - who are already part of the underclass, and generally not worrying too much about its permanence. It's preying on neurotic well-off people in Silicon Valley…