The Customer Collapse: How AI Could Destroy Wages, Taxes, and the Consumer Economy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798186491415)

The machines keep working. The products keep moving. Then the paychecks disappear.

Artificial intelligence promises higher productivity, lower costs, and companies that can produce more with fewer workers.

But the worker removed from payroll was never just an employee.

He was a customer.
A taxpayer.
A borrower.
A tenant.
A subscriber.
A buyer.

What happens when millions of paychecks disappear-but the automated economy keeps producing?

THE CUSTOMER COLLAPSE follows the missing paycheck through the financial system: from AI-driven job displacement to weaker consumer spending, falling corporate revenue, shrinking tax receipts, rising government debt, inflation pressure, and the growing power of those who own the machines.

This is not another book asking whether AI will take your job.

It asks a more dangerous question:

If AI removes enough wages, who keeps the economy alive?

Inside, you will discover:

- Why AI job loss could become a consumer demand crisis before it becomes an unemployment catastrophe
- How disappearing wages can hit retailers, lenders, corporate profits, and financial markets
- Why governments may lose tax revenue precisely when public spending begins to rise
- How debt and government transfers could be used to manufacture purchasing power-and where inflation risk may emerge
- Which economic signals investors should watch as money moves from labor toward AI infrastructure, energy, capital, and machine ownership

The next economic crisis may not begin with a bank collapse.

It may begin inside a perfectly functioning factory.

The machine won.
Then the economy lost.

Follow the missing paycheck. Follow the money. See the crisis before the market gives it a name.