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Self-Employment Series #2: Ownership Is Not Freedom
Ownership collapses abstraction.
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A Market Crash and Recession Are Bullish, Not Bearish
This isn't "Capitalism," it's Model Collapse ushering in the inevitable conflagration.
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The Banality of Evil and Those Who Said No
In the Realm of the Banality of Evil, saying yes is always easy. The hard part is saying no, for reasons that have nothing to do with getting ahead.
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What Few Understand About Money
Money's social function and structure is the water we swim in, unseen because we take it for granted.
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Re-Set: Reversing the Debt-Debasement Death-Spiral
The end-game of debt-debasement is already visible. The only thing that's still up in the air is our response.
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Owning Your Work in a World That Rents Your Life
This is the quiet truth of institutional work: improvement doesn't buy freedom. It buys responsibility without ownership.
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Power and Impunity
Those acting with impunity are confident that their powers or god-like because they appear so in the human realm. But there are limits to everything in…
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Charles Hugh Smith's Substack
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