Moments In Flow

Tag: competition

  • THE PEAR:Why the Shape of the Distribution Determines Whether Class Stays Class

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    The shape of the distribution is the variable. Everything else is a policy. I. FOUR SHAPES, FOUR LOGICS The class structure is usually described by its height. The variable that matters is its shape. The pyramid. A mass base, a thin middle, a narrow top. The gap between base and top usually is unbridgeable within…

  • The Mating Mismatch

    How Contemporary Society Breeds Confusion, Not Connection The Conditional Logic of Human Mating Human mating runs on conditional logic. Robert Trivers laid this out in 1972 with his theory of parental investment: any cost a parent bears that increases one offspring’s survival chances at the expense of investing in other offspring. The sex that invests…

  • The Rival Elites in the West

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    You think there’s one ruling class? Please. The West is now a five‑ring circus of competing power brokers, each with its own hat, its own grudge, and its own plan to save (or burn down) the neighbourhood. First, the Incumbent Managerial Elite. These are your legacy CEOs, senior civil servants, military brass. They own the…