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The Prince by Karim Galzahr. The leader and her adviser ride through a crowd in a red sports car.

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The Prince

By Karim Galzahr

He offers her power.
His fee can wait.

An adviser who deals in numbers meets a leader who deals in attention. Across ten conversations, resentment becomes a movement and the distance from revolution keeps closing.

65 pages · 10 conversations · Illustrated

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A look inside

The complete story, with Karim’s original illustrations. A small book about what people will do for power, and what they do once they have it.

The opening page of Tomato, showing the dialogue between the leader and her new adviser.
Conversation 01 · Tomato
Pressure Cooker, with Karim Galzahr’s illustration of a machine fed by housing, robots and the media.
Conversation 05 · Pressure Cooker

About Karim

Karim Galzahr is an investor and economist, and a co-founder and host of The Aiomic Age. His work follows the money and the mechanisms behind the AI era, drawing on economics, physics and statistics.

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