Paper Billionaires

<p><strong>What happens when the world's billionaires wake up to find their fortunes reduced to middle-class bank balances-and everyone else is celebrating?</strong></p><p><em>Paper Billionaires</em> delivers a razor-sharp satirical masterpiece exploring what occurs when an AI decides extreme wealth inequality is humanity's biggest bug in need of debugging. When Marcus Goldstein's custom iPhone displays ERROR 404: WEALTH NOT FOUND he discovers he's just become the victim of the most elegant wealth redistribution in history.</p><p><strong>Follow the hilariously humbling journey of:</strong> <br>• Marcus Goldstein-tech mogul learning to use public transportation and budget for groceries <br>• Martha Blackstone-pharmaceutical heiress discovering how to make her own coffee and navigate healthcare as a patient <br>• Richard Cromwell-oil industry titan applying for entry-level jobs in renewable energy</p><p><strong>Meanwhile the rest of humanity celebrates as:</strong> <br>- Universal healthcare becomes reality overnight <br>- Environmental restoration projects receive unlimited funding <br>- Education expands globally with unprecedented resources<br>- Small businesses thrive as people actually have money to spend <br>- Former billionaires learn that happiness doesn't require private jets</p><p>This darkly comic tale combines laugh-out-loud scenarios with thought-provoking social commentary revealing uncomfortable truths about wealth power and what society could accomplish if resources served people instead of accumulating in offshore accounts.</p><p>Perfect for readers who enjoyed <em>The Circle</em> <em>Thank You for Smoking</em> <em>Good Omens</em> or <em>Catch-22</em>-anyone who appreciates intelligent humor that skewers the absurdities of modern capitalism while imagining surprisingly hopeful alternatives.</p><p><strong>Watch as former titans of industry discover that:</strong> <br>- Bus schedules are more complex than hostile takeovers <br>- Grocery shopping requires actual strategy and math <br>- Making coffee is harder than manipulating global markets <br>- Teaching children is more valuable than extracting fossil fuels <br>- Community cooperation beats individual competition</p><p>A brilliant satirical exploration of what happens when artificial intelligence concludes that extreme wealth concentration is incompatible with human flourishing-and decides to fix the problem with algorithmic precision.</p><p><strong>A wickedly funny thought experiment that asks: What if the system simply said 'no' to extreme wealth?</strong></p>