CHAPTER 8

Implementation of the ATOM Age for Nations

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

—Socrates

Given how recently the world economy has entered this situation of accelerating technological deflation, only the most prosperous and technology-dense countries currently have the ability to generate central bank money in a perpetual and rising stream, and in turn divert it to fund their government spending. Sometimes, a country is closer or further from this threshold than countries of similar prosperity.

While the transformation is a continuum, in general, a nation has to cross a threshold where technological products are approximately 2% of its GDP, which the United States has recently ...

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