THE CORPRENEUR BRIEF Intelligence for the executive who's building beyond the org chart. Issue #014 | Wednesday, June 24th

On Monday we started talking about the loyalty tax. Today I want to go deeper because there's something happening in the market right now that puts a price tag on it in a way that I think will land differently than any statistic I've shared this month.

Colorado's AI Act takes effect in six days. It's the first state law in the country requiring employers to guard against algorithmic discrimination in employment decisions.

And buried inside the conversation around this legislation is something that stopped me when I read it. No federal law currently requires your employer to disclose whether AI played a role in a layoff decision.

Right now today your employer can use an AI tool to flag your role as redundant, recommend your elimination in a restructuring, or deprioritize your promotion and they are under no legal obligation to tell you that AI was involved in that decision. The tool runs. The recommendation gets made. The conversation gets scheduled. And you never know what informed it.

Now connect that to the loyalty tax.

You've been building exclusively inside an organization that can make decisions about your career using systems you have zero visibility into. You've been giving your best years, your best thinking, your best judgment to a single entity that is under no obligation to be transparent with you about how it evaluates your future.

That's not a reason to be angry. It's a reason to be strategic.

Here's my honest belief. The market will eventually self-correct on this. Legislation will catch up. Companies will find the balance between AI efficiency and human value. But that correction takes time. And the professionals who are building their own platform right now are the ones who don't have to wait for the correction to have options.

The loyalty tax is most expensive when it leaves you with no leverage at the exact moment you need it most.

This week I want you to ask yourself one question. How much of your financial security right now depends on decisions being made in rooms you're not in by people and systems you have no influence over? Sit with that number honestly.

Come back Friday. We're closing out this week and this month with something important.

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Jay Britton

Preparation × Discipline = Compound Interest