On the Virtue of Problem-Solving
There are many ways to describe the drama of human existence. Some say life is a journey, others a battle, a test, a trial, or a performance.…
Finance and Economy
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Finding Home in the Rubble: Andrew Lee’s “Defying Displacement” Charts a Quiet Rebellion
In Defying Displacement, Andrew Lee has written a book that feels both timely and timeless, a meditation on the nature of belonging that never slips into sentimentality,…
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Escape wage slavery by creating your own economic mutual aid network
In today’s economic landscape, many people find themselves tethered to jobs that offer little satisfaction, often referred to as “wage slavery.” This term describes a condition where…
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Charity or Ego Trip? Rethinking What It Means to Do Good
There’s a particular kind of feeling that comes with realizing you’ve been wrong about something for years. Not the minor kind, like discovering that capers aren’t baby…
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A Master Class in Macroeconomics Disguised as a Warning
In How Countries Go Broke, Ray Dalio does what he has always done best: distill the complexities of global finance into a coherent, almost narrative logic. Dalio,…
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The Century-Long Prisoner’s Dilemma That Now Threatens Us All
For the last hundred years, humanity has been caught in a slow-motion game of the prisoner’s dilemma; and the stakes have never been higher. First formalized in…
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The Landfill Economy and the Death of Meaning
We live in a time of abundance, or so we’re told. Never in human history have so many goods been so widely available, so cheaply produced, and…
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“Debt: The First 5,000 Years” by David Graeber – a review
In Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the late anthropologist David Graeber mounts an audacious and deeply researched challenge to one of the most fundamental assumptions of modern…
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Saving Those Who Refuse to Swim
There comes a point when generosity begins to feel like self-harm. When the instinct to give, to lift, to offer, to patch the wounds of a society…
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“The Dawn of Everything” Upends the Script—With a Smile
Every few years, a book arrives claiming to rewrite history. Most fade quietly into the footnotes. The Dawn of Everything, by the late anthropologist David Graeber and…