The next great societal uprising may not take place on Wall Street; it may unfold in the algorithmic trenches of artificial intelligence.
In a striking new thread, Jeff Park, CIO at ProCap BTC and advisor to Bitwise Asset Management, warns that the rise of AI is creating an unprecedented labor-value crisis, one that could fuel a global movement he calls “OccupyAI.”
Park, a former Morgan Stanley portfolio strategist and Stanford graduate, argues that inequality has transcended wages, now entrenched in access, opportunity, and even the stock market itself.
From Occupy Wall Street to OccupyAI
According to Park, the forces shaping inequality today extend beyond finance into every layer of modern life. “The top ten companies in the S&P 500 now control nearly 40% of the index,” he noted, calling it a mirror of social stratification where “power, wealth, and opportunity are increasingly centralized.”
October 2025’s historic wave of layoffs, the highest since 2003, underscores this shift. Park highlighted that while firms like Amazon and Meta are shedding tens of thousands of jobs, corporate profits remain near record highs. “The social contract has frayed,” he said. “The promise that education and hard work secure a stable life no longer holds.”
The Rise of the Faceless Adversary
In Park’s view, the next revolution won’t target bankers or corporations, but algorithms. He describes AI as the new, faceless elite, a network of computational authority that “optimizes for efficiency at the expense of humanity.”
Unlike the 2008 crisis, he argues, this is not a liquidity problem. “The Fed can’t fix this with rate cuts. Cheaper money accelerates automation,” he warned. “This is a labor-value crisis, where human ingenuity itself is being devalued.”
His critique of OpenAI was especially pointed. Calling its $1 trillion IPO ambitions “a spectacle,” Park accused the company of “socializing risk while privatizing upside.”
Bitcoin as the Counterforce
Park envisions Bitcoin, and crypto at large, as humanity’s decentralized countermeasure. “If Occupy Wall Street was about corruption, OccupyAI will be about free will,” he wrote. In his framework, AI centralizes cognition while crypto decentralizes it.
“AI extracts value; crypto redistributes it. AI erases authorship; crypto preserves it,” he declared.
The next generation, he predicts, will rebel through code rather than protest signs. “Occupy Wall Street turned Millennials into Bitcoiners. OccupyAI will turn Gen Z and Gen Alpha into cypherpunks.”
The Coming Fight for Human Agency
Jeff Park’s thesis is as much philosophical as it is economic. He warns that industrial policy now overpowers monetary tools, and that the real risk is the debasement of human value, not just currency.
His closing words were a rallying cry for digital self-determination:
“Bitcoin will rise again, not just as a store of value, but as a store of values.”