Life after door kicking.

Tag: inflation

  • Things run so smooth we forget they’re not guaranteed to

    I heard recently that we’ve moved to a post-scarcity society—and that it wasn’t even up for debate.Stopping at the gas station in the morning shatters that illusion.If we were actually post-scarcity, there’d be no shortages. Prices wouldn’t exist. Geography wouldn’t matter. Conflicts on the other side of the world wouldn’t touch anything here because you…

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  • Republic to Empire: The Middle-Class Legitimacy Collapse

    We are living through the transition phase from republic to empire — unless we correct course rapidly.Faith in institutions didn’t collapse overnight. It eroded quietly, unevenly, and predictably. Accountability stopped flowing upward. Standards stopped applying evenly. The system learned it could absorb scandal after scandal without consequence — so long as enforcement remained efficient where…

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  • Argentina’s Libertarian Experiment: A Real-World Trial

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    Commentators predicted mass suffering.Headlines promised chaos. As Javier Milei rose to power, I started observing something rare: my political ideology undergoing a real-world trial, not in a think tank or a debate hall, but in a country already brought to its knees by decades of bad policy. To the uninitiated, what followed seemed unexpected. After…

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