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Hypersonic festive break part one

After AGI , Christmas is go big or go home.

Dec 28, 2025
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At precisely midnight on December 1st, 340 million workers across North America , the overwhelming majority of the workforce down tools.

This is the new economic reality: AGI-driven productivity has increased output per worker by 12x since 2035, while the wealth explosion has made entire months off not just affordable but standard.

Companies discovered something counterintuitive: giving everyone December off increases annual productivity. Workers return in January energized, creative, recharged. The AGI systems handle essential operations autonomously. And most crucially—the entire month becomes an economic supernova of consumption that drives 18% of annual retail revenue.

December is experience season.

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