Dear Oliver Twist,
Nvidia just crossed $5 trillion in valuation.
Five. Trillion.
That’s the GDP of an entire nation – created not by oil, land, or armies, but by chips the size of your fingernail and the promise of AI shaping the future.
And if you listen closely, you can hear the real story humming underneath the headlines – not about tech or profits or markets, but about the lie we’ve all been told:
There isn’t enough.
We have to cut back.
We can’t afford that.
Scarcity, scarcity, scarcity.
It’s the background music of American politics –
the lullaby sung by billionaires to keep the rest of us asleep.
But $5 trillion has a way of waking people up.
Because the truth is – and always has been – painfully simple:
There is plenty of money. We just pretend there isn’t.
Every time we say we “can’t afford” universal healthcare…
or modern infrastructure…
or decent wages…
or quality education…
or preparing the next generation for an AI-driven world…
We should remember this moment.
Because apparently, we could afford it –
we just chose to stack $5 trillion into one corporate tower
instead of investing broadly in the people who built that tower.
This isn’t a letter about Nvidia.
Or AI.
Or stock markets.
This is a letter about the shape of abundance.
And who gets to hold it.
The myth of scarcity was never about money – it was about power.
Scarcity is the tool that keeps workers begging for crumbs
while investors gorge themselves on whole bakeries.
Scarcity is the justification for underfunded schools
and overfunded missile systems.
Scarcity is how the wealthy turn abundance into fear
and fear into obedience.
And scarcity is the excuse used to tell everyday people
to “tighten their belts”
while CEOs loosen theirs to make room for another billion.
But here’s the truth the $5 trillion valuation exposes:
We were never running out of money.
We were running out of imagination.
Technology didn’t shrink the pie.
It widened the table.
But the seats didn’t get distributed.
They got consolidated.
What if we built a society that matched our abundance?
Imagine if the same urgency that built AI chips
went into affordable healthcare.
Or repairing bridges.
Or childcare.
Or teacher salaries.
Or addiction treatment.
Or elder care.
Or climate solutions.
Or preparing workers to thrive in an AI-powered economy.
Imagine an America where abundance wasn’t locked in vaults
but circulated like blood – delivering life, not hoarding it.
Imagine the future if we treated prosperity
not as a gated community
but as a shared infrastructure.
That’s the thing about abundance:
once you stop hoarding it,
you realize how naturally it flows.
So here’s a thought…
Nvidia reaching $5 trillion isn’t a financial story –
it’s a moral mirror.
It shows us the money is there.
The innovation is there.
The possibility is there.
What’s missing is the courage
to build systems that honor abundance
instead of protecting scarcity.
We’re not fighting over scraps.
We’re drowning in plenty.
We just haven’t decided who deserves to breathe.
Love,
— The Radical Left