While Rome Burns: Building Regenerative Empires in Collapsing Systems
Multi-generational family offices plan on 100-year timelines.
Nation-states operate on 4-year election cycles.
AI is about to eliminate cognitive labor scarcity.
And trust in every major institution is collapsing simultaneously.
So what exactly are wealthy families preserving—and for what world?
Philip Marcovici has spent decades advising governments, institutions, and ultra-wealthy families on tax, wealth management, and family governance. His book, The Transformative Power of Family Wealth, challenges families to capture wealth's regenerative potential rather than simply defend it.
But our conversation goes somewhere most wealth advisors won't: What happens when the entire scaffolding collapses?
We explore:
→ The New Confiscation: Why algorithmic wealth extraction (inflation, financial repression, ESG mandates) may be more dangerous than traditional revolution
→ The End of Jurisdictional Arbitrage: For 40 years, wealthy families survived through capital mobility and regulatory shopping. That era is over. In a world of blocs, barriers, and naked national interest—where do you hide when 'global' stops being an option?
→ The Governance Paradox: Can you engineer 100-year family structures when legal systems, property rights, and jurisdictional stability are visibly deteriorating?
→ The AI Rupture: When intelligence becomes non-rival and infinitely replicable, what happens to wealth built on ownership of scarce assets?
→ Post-Labor Capitalism: Near-zero marginal cost for energy (fusion) and labor (AI/robotics) within 10-15 years. If the economic foundation of capitalism—scarcity itself—disappears, what are we even preserving wealth for?
→ The Legitimacy Crisis: When half of young people question whether capitalism should exist, can wealth concentration be defended philosophically—or is it purely a power game now?
This isn't about tax optimization or trust structures.
It's about whether the systems that make wealth meaningful will survive the decade—and what families should be doing if they won't.
What's the uncomfortable question about wealth and power that both left and right are avoiding?
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