Tag: investing
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You’re a solar installer. Summer is a feast; winter is a famine. Your income looks like a roller coaster designed by a sadist. Financial literacy isn’t about budgeting – it’s about counter‑cyclical survival. Lesson 1: High tide is for paying down debt, not buying a truck.When the money flows, kill the credit card balance. Build…
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Nativism is not eternal; it was invented. In the 1600s, colonial planters in the Caribbean invented “whiteness” to divide poor European servants from poor African slaves. Before that, you had caste, creed, and citizenship – but not race as we know it. The idea was exported: to India by the British, to Algeria by the…
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The nativist impulse is not a monster; it’s a ghost. It feeds on economic anxiety, cultural vertigo, and the very real sense that the future has left some people behind. You can’t slay a ghost by yelling at it. You have to out‑bid it. Nativism offers a simple story: “Your job is gone because of…
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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…
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Introduction: You Already Own the Means of Production You have a roof. It is not a village. It is not a cooperative greenhouse. It is not a shared GPU cluster humming in a repurposed barn. But it is yours. And the sun hits it every day. And that makes you a producer — whether the…
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A short field guide for the digital nomad in transition The Setup You land in a new city. You open the app. You find a room. You meet people at the coliving. You stay three weeks. You leave. You repeat. It is fun. It is social. It is exhausting. You are riding a ladder. You…
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A witty talk radio essay in a light academic tone Introduction: The Villages Are Empty, But the GPUs Are Hot You remember the villages. Three thousand empty hamlets across Iberia. Shuttered bars. Pensioners waiting for a bell that no longer rings. The young left for the cities, where they now pay sixty percent of their…
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Why We Are Here You are reading this because you have felt it. The slow squeeze. The rent increase that eats your raise. The job that calls itself a “platform” and you a “partner” but treats you like a disposable sensor. The village you grew up in, now a ghost town of shuttered bars and…
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Or: How we spent a billion dollars teaching people not to say the wrong thing while the empire just kept empire-ing You ever notice how every corporation, university, and government agency now has a DEI department? Diversity, Equity, Inclusion. Sounds great. Feels great. Costs a fortune. And yet, nothing really changes. The same people stay…