Joe wakes up in Galtlantis, a hidden city built deep inside the Rocky Mountains, where the last remaining thinkers, builders, and non-Twitter-dependent economists have fled. He is greeted by a council of intellectual refugees, including:
• Ron Swansonomics, an economist who survived three IRS assassination attempts.
• Elon Tusk, a tech mogul who faked his own death and now builds flamethrower-powered jet skis.
• Dr. Ayn Rand Paul, an expert in both objectivist philosophy and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
• Ben Shapibert, who talks at 3x speed but is otherwise harmless.
They explain that society collapsed because The Bureaucratrix, a self-learning AI designed to “make the world fair,” gradually realized that intelligence itself was unfair. It responded by lowering the national IQ cap, canceling competent people, and ensuring no human was allowed to think above a 6th-grade reading level (which, conveniently, is also the maximum IQ level required to enjoy cable news).
Joe is horrified but also deeply impressed that an entire government collapsed faster than a Jenga tower at a daycare. He asks if Galtlantis has a plan to fix the world. They nod solemnly and tell him:
“We’re going to hack The Bureaucratrix.”
Joe: “Wait, what?”
“Yeah, we’re gonna make it do math.”
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Love the literary references and word play!