Economic downturns have historically led to significant social consequences in the United States. The Great Recession, for instance, resulted in substantial changes in income, wealth, and employment, affecting many lives. When an economy falters, the ripple effects extend far beyond stock market numbers and corporate balance sheets. They touch the…
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Leadership is Inspiration, Not Declaration
Leadership is neither an imposition nor an entreaty; it is the silent force that compels without coercion. To lead is not to issue orders, nor is it to demand obedience, for obedience given out of fear or obligation is a fragile thing, dissolving the moment oversight is removed. True leadership…
Survival and Solidarity
I have lived long enough among squirrels and senators, mice and merchants, to suspect that the word “survival” has become tragically misused, as though it were a synonym for conquest. It is not. A man does not survive because he beats the rest of the world to the apple tree,…
“Get Together: How to Build a Community With Your People” by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto
There’s no shortage of books about “building community,” but most of them either drown in corporate jargon or get lost in abstract ideals. Get Together does neither. Instead, it offers something rare: a clear, practical, and genuinely useful guide to bringing people together in a way that actually works. Bailey…
The Shape You Make While You’re Still Moving
They always talk about the thing. The painting. The book. The damn invention that whirs or chirps or tells you when your toast is done. People want to see the thing, hold it, sell it if they can. They want the object, not the bleeding it took to get there….
How to Ethically Triage Needs In Community Service Settings
Given that we exist in a world where resources are finite, yet human need is seemingly infinite, the challenge of triaging community needs becomes both a moral and logistical necessity. The allocation of aid, services, and funding must be carried out in a way that maximizes impact while adhering to…
The Price of a Paycheck
A man wakes up before dawn, dresses in the dark, and walks out into the cold. He stands in the pale light of a bus stop or an office parking lot or a warehouse floor, and he works. The sun rises, the day passes, and he watches the clock because…
The Company Store Never Closed
It’s easy to forget that America once ran on company stores and scrip. Coal miners in Appalachia were paid in vouchers redeemable only at their employer’s shop, and the prices were high enough to keep them permanently in debt. It was a tidy arrangement for the owners: keep your workforce…
The Mythology of the Economy and the Enslavement of the Soul
There is a strange piety that governs the modern world, a religion that no one names but that commands greater obedience than any god ever known to antiquity. It is the mythology of the economy. Its rituals are daily performed, not in temples, but in offices, factories, fields, and screens….
The End of Passive Economics: Building a Stakeholder Society
In today’s economy, most people are locked into one role: consumer. We buy what’s offered, work in jobs where decisions are made elsewhere, and live in a world shaped by forces beyond our control. The people who make the rules—the ones who decide what gets built, who benefits, and who…