The Age of Abundance: AI and the Future of Work, Wealth, and Purpose

Leandro Maya

Apr 2026 · Evergreen Nexus · Narrated by Cesar Brasil

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What happens to society when machines can do almost everything, and most people no longer need to work?

The Age of Abundance is not a book about robots taking jobs. It is a book about what comes after. Drawing on economics, history, and decades of experience at the intersection of finance and technology, Leandro Maya argues that humanity is approaching a transformation unlike anything in recorded history, one that promises extraordinary wealth and devastating disruption in equal measure.

At the center of this transformation are two problems that no one is talking about. The ladder problem: automation is eliminating the entry-level positions that have always served as the first rung of career development, cutting off the path before millions of people ever get to climb it. And the purpose problem: when work becomes optional, what gives life meaning?

Neither blindly optimistic nor needlessly alarming, The Age of Abundance charts a more honest and more human path through the economic revolution already underway, one that finance professionals, business leaders, and curious minds cannot afford to ignore.

What happens to society when machines can do almost everything, and most people no longer need to work? The Age of Abundance is not a book about robots taking jobs. It is a book about what comes after. Drawing on economics, history, and decades of experience at the intersection of finance and tec...

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Leandro Zechlinski Maya is a finance professional, entrepreneur, and investor passionate about the forces reshaping the future of human life. His career has spanned major technology companies including Apple, Facebook, and Circle, where he gained firsthand insight into how innovation transforms industries and economies. This experience in both finance and the technology sector gives him a unique perspective on the intersection of automation, markets, and human systems. In The Age of Abundance: How AI and Robots Will Reshape Work, Society, and Purpose, Leandro offers a clear, optimistic, and deeply human exploration of what happens when machines begin to replace both labor and cognition at scale. He examines the disruption of the workforce, the redesign of social programs, the collapse of costs through extreme efficiency, the shifting balance between nations, and the coming revolution in medicine and longevity. Above all, he argues that the greatest challenge of the automation era will not be technological, but psychological: how human beings find meaning and purpose in a world where survival no longer requires work. Drawing on his professional experience across finance and technology, Leandro brings a practical, economically grounded perspective to questions often dominated by either techno-utopianism or dystopian fear. He writes with the belief that the future is not guaranteed to be good, but it is capable of being extraordinary.

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