Corey Brewster

Ethical capitalist focused on long-term systems. Drawn to meaning, stewardship, and first principles.

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

@espn @elonmusk - I possibly have the best Robotaxi commercial idea.. 💡

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

@jk_rowling Gurl, you should have put the link in this post and set it up for a kickback.

You’re already rich, but this could have just been for your son.

Anyway - I’m looking into the Nomad.

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

@elonmusk

[Zain Shah @zan2434]

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.

@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

@WallStreetApes I mean - why not live in China at this point? Chengdu City Forest Garden looking better and better…

[Grummz @Grummz]

This is insane!!!

Someone just created a tool for Claude that lets it take any image and not just generate an environment, but individual meshes with physics and an ambient sound layer.

Unreal, blender ready, etc.

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.

An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:

They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.

His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family.

When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message.

The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit.

He accepted.

Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved.

He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control.

Instead, he resigned on day 16.

He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done.

Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days.

He died poor. On his farm.

2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power.

King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble.

The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die.

Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him.

Most people who live there have no idea why.

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

@Chicagojon2016 @CitizenJaneSays Yeah - I get it man. I’m just trying to think of ideas within the chaos of the system. Seems like having multiple income streams is the only way to get ahead anymore. Hydroponics leads to income to then pay the gas for the truck to help keep the cattle infrastructure alive.

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

@JustinNich51838 @skumWgmi I do enjoy the office every now and then and side conversations - but our economy is no longer truly setup for that anymore. The main reason for this RTO is capital expense and pensions. Reuse the buildings as condos, food production, malls, restaurants, etc.

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

@skumWgmi I think that pension capital expense for the buildings should be reused as condos and housing with 3-5 levels being hydroponic use, and mall / gaming at the main bottom level. Reuse for the digital economy. Pension tied into something useful and needed.

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

@CitizenJaneSays Similar to https://t.co/po4KGQECmM or others within that same niche. I know it can’t fully replace what a farm is or means but perhaps you can do a multi-fold operation. Rentals, micro-greens, horse riding, holiday pumpkin fest, and hydroponics year round…

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

@CitizenJaneSays I’m curious if you have debated pivoting to something similar to hydroponics with lettuce and micro greens and perhaps a few other highly demanded fruits and veggies instead of the traditional methods.

Perhaps also trading in the truck for a Tesla or Rivian

[Karan @karankendre]

Anthropic is burning billions trying to replace humans with AI

Meanwhile, Chinese courts just ruled you can’t fire people just to replace them with AI

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

@joekent16jan19 This makes a lot of sense if we're ever going to compete with China at scale on cities, infrastructure, and education.

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

@mcuban I understand that under the current system this would help. However, the whole system needs to be completely reworked for affordability to average people, while also keeping private equity out of hospitals, which is causing massive disruption.

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

@mattvanswol Matt - we don’t - at least in the USA. Unfortunately, we would have to leave and move to a place like Paraquay or Philippines.

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

Full local 💫

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

I rebuilt much of my OpenClaw stack to run on local models.

Getting this right is harder than it looks.

I partnered with @NVIDIA_AI_PC to show you exactly how my hybrid local/hosted architecture works:

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

🚨RESEARCHERS JUST MATHEMATICALLY PROVED THAT AI LAYOFFS WILL DESTROY THE ECONOMY.. AND EVERY CEO ALREADY KNOWS IT.. BUT NONE OF THEM CAN STOP..

Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper called "The AI Layoff Trap"..

They proved something terrifying..

Every company replacing workers with AI is also firing its own customers.. Every laid-off employee is someone who used to spend money.. When enough people lose their jobs.. Nobody can afford to buy anything.. And the companies that fired everyone go bankrupt selling products to an economy with no purchasing power..

Every CEO can see this coming.. The math is obvious.. Fire workers.. Lose customers.. Lose revenue.. Collapse..

But here's the trap..

No company can afford to stop..

If you don't automate.. Your competitor will.. They cut costs.. Undercut your prices.. Steal your market share.. And you die anyway..

So every company automates.. Knowing it's collectively suicidal.. Because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives..

It's a Prisoner's Dilemma.. And the researchers proved it mathematically..

The numbers are already stacking up..

Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year.. CEO Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that "within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion"..

Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI..

Goldman Sachs deployed an AI coder that lets one senior engineer do the work of a five-person team..

Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 alone.. AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half the cases..

80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation..

And here's what should scare policymakers..

The researchers tested every proposed solution..

Universal Basic Income.. Doesn't fix it.. It raises living standards but doesn't change a single company's incentive to automate..

Capital income taxes.. Don't fix it.. They change profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human..

Worker equity and profit sharing.. Narrows the gap but can't close it..

Collective bargaining.. Can't fix it.. Because automating is a dominant strategy.. No voluntary agreement between companies is self-enforcing..

Only one thing works.. A Pigouvian automation tax.. A per-task charge that forces every company to pay for the demand it destroys when it fires a worker..

The researchers call it a "Red Queen effect".. Better AI doesn't solve the problem.. It makes it worse.. Because every company sees a bigger market share gain from automating faster than rivals.. But at the end.. Everyone automates equally.. The gains cancel out.. And the only thing left is more destroyed demand..

The paper's conclusion is devastating..

This isn't a transfer from workers to company owners.. Both sides lose.. Workers lose their income.. Companies lose their customers.. It's a deadweight loss that harms everyone..

And no market force can break the cycle..

The AI layoff trap isn't a prediction.. It's already happening.. And the math says it won't stop on its own.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is great.

At least those judges who release violent criminals who go on to hurt more people will be publicly shamed!

[Corey Brewster @cabrewst]

@mattvanswol The only way partially “out” is to leave America.

Check out Nomad Capitalist on YouTube.

If you are out of the country for a certain period of time, don’t have to pay heavy tax but still on the hook for some of them.