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How We Do and Should Value a Person

KoinBlog, May 31, 2025March 2, 2025

How do we value a person? How should we value a person? The first question concerns what is, the second what ought to be. But to ask them together suggests a hidden third: what is our duty in the face of this question? It is not enough to analyze. The…

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Will We Come Together Again?

KoinBlog, May 29, 2025April 6, 2025

The Great Depression taught Americans many things, but one lesson really stands out, not in the numbers or charts, but in the stories that passed from grandparents to grandchildren around dinner tables and porches. It’s the story of people who had very little, and yet gave anyway—of soup kitchens that…

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The Weight of Too Much

KoinBlog, May 27, 2025April 4, 2025

No one complains about having enough. Enough food, enough money, enough security—these are the markers of a good life. But what happens when “enough” turns into too much? When abundance, instead of liberating us, traps us? We don’t often think of excess as a burden. If anything, modern consumer culture…

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“Techno-feudalism: What Killed Capitalism,” by Yanis Varoufakis – a review

KoinBlog, May 26, 2025March 14, 2025

In “Techno-feudalism: What Killed Capitalism,” Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister and renowned economist, presents a head-turning thesis: capitalism, as we have known it, is dead, replaced by a more insidious system he terms “techno-feudalism.” In this new order, technological behemoths have assumed the role of feudal lords, wielding…

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The Lonely Crowd and White Collar: A Mirror to the American Soul

KoinBlog, May 25, 2025April 4, 2025

David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd and C. Wright Mills’ White Collar sit on the shelf like a pair of old photographs—faded, perhaps, but still revealing. They capture America at a moment when the country had stepped into its new postwar prosperity, blinking at the bright lights of mass media, corporate…

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Why Economic Collapse Might Be Just What We Need to Survive – Long-Term

KoinBlog, May 24, 2025May 24, 2025

Economic collapse is a phrase that brings to mind images of breadlines, shuttered factories, and desperate faces. It is spoken of as a catastrophe, a specter that must be avoided at all costs. But history has shown that collapse, while painful, is often the necessary breaking point before something better…

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From Self-Sufficiency to Community-Sufficiency: Rethinking Preparedness

KoinBlog, May 23, 2025April 4, 2025

I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos about homesteading and prepping lately. Partly because I find the whole idea fascinating—growing your own food, living off the land, being prepared for whatever the world throws at you. But also because, let’s be honest, things are looking shaky out there, and…

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Living Beyond Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of a Non-Monetary Life

KoinBlog, May 21, 2025February 17, 2025

Modern life is so entangled with money that imagining an existence without it feels radical, even impossible. We measure success in dollars earned, hours billed, and possessions acquired. Yet, beneath this financial scaffolding, a quieter, deeper economy persists—one of time, relationships, skill, and purpose. Stepping outside the monetary system, even…

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The Devouring God: Capitalism and the Cult of Growth

KoinBlog, May 20, 2025April 4, 2025

There is an ancient god who walks among us, though few dare to name him. He has no temples, no hymns, no solemn rites. Yet his presence is everywhere—woven into the fabric of our lives, shaping our desires, devouring our futures. His name is Moloch, and in the age of…

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“The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power,” by Shoshana Zuboff – a review

KoinBlog, May 19, 2025March 14, 2025

Shoshana Zuboff’s seminal work, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power,” explores the emergence of a new economic order where human experience is commodified for data extraction and profit. Zuboff, a professor emerita at Harvard Business School, meticulously examines how…

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