Why Small Communities are the Survival Strategy of the Future
This is an edited and recycled piece from the past. Enjoy. It doesn’t take an economist to see what’s happening. We all know that we’re in the…
Finance and Economy
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On Free Markets, Capital, and the Illusion of a Perfect System
I had a brief exchange with someone a few days ago about capitalism and free markets (then sussed it out further with ChatGPT). I found it very…
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Loneliness Capitalism
I just ran across a video on YouTube titled Loneliness Capitalism. That’s awesome. What an interesting idea. And no, I don’t mean loneliness is awesome, or that…
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Entropy and the Cost of Holding Things Together
Entropy is a word that sounds scientific enough to be safely ignored by most. A physics term, yes. A classroom idea, maybe. Something about heat death and…
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What Really Motivates Us to Work
Social incentive to work versus monetary incentive to work We’re all familiar with the paradigm of a monetary incentive to work. It’s, basically, the way a society…
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Welcome to the Age of Agency
Once again, I find myself opining on something I heard in a YouTube video recently. The age of knowledge is over.This is the age of agency. I’ve…
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Surrender Is Not An Option
As the economy continues to worsen, the old system of get a job → cash your paycheck → live your life is going to become less and…
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Content People Are Just Broken Consumers
As all great essays generally start (lol), I heard something very interesting on a YouTube podcast. I wish I could say that I was a voracious reader,…
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From Mad Men to Influencers: How the Dream Ate Us
I don’t think Mad Men was ever really about nostalgia. I mean, It looked nostalgic. The suits. The cocktails. The cigarettes smoked ironically. But underneath it all…
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The Map That Ate the Territory
Once upon a time – long, long ago – symbols pointed to things that actually existed. We knew what reality was. Or at least, we thought we…