First the office. Now the factory. Everything is next.

Jeff Bezos is raising $100 billion to buy established manufacturers and overhaul them with AI. Chipmaking. Aerospace. Automotive. Defence. The people who told you the physical world was safe from this wave were reasoning from the last one.

This week on The Sunday Signal, David Richards MBE runs three stories that belong together.

First: why the Full Monty was about Sheffield steelworkers, and why this time it is bankers, analysts, lawyers and accountants facing the same structural shock. The white-collar professional class assumed its credentials would protect it. The data says otherwise.

Second: what Project Prometheus actually is, what a hundred billion dollars buys, and what the lights-out factory model means for every job we assumed required human hands.

Third: the Robot Tax. Governments are already reaching for it. But the modern state is built on taxing labour. Remove labour, and you remove the foundation. Everything else is detail.

Plus the Sunday Signal Tech and AI Layoff Tracker, now tracking approximately 65,700 roles eliminated or marked for elimination in 2026. HSBC joins this week. The first globally systemically important bank to name AI as the formal mechanism of a workforce reduction. It will not be the last.

The physical world is not different. It is just next.

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