Transitions have a shape. The mining analysts named a shape like this one after Pierre Lassonde. It starts with a discovery peak, when the narrative outruns the asset, then falls into a capitulation trough, when the asset arrives and the narrative has left. A long consolidation follows, and then a second rise that arrives late…
The Earned Advantage, and Why the Middle Class’s Own Story Makes Its Defence Indefensible An advantage that is earned cannot be defended. The defence is the confession that it was not earned. I. THE STORY The middle class has a story about itself, and the story is about time. It is the story of deferred…
1. The Fourth-Order Effect The first order was diesel. The second was food. The third was physical shortage. The fourth is medicine. The sequence is not arbitrary. It follows the same logic as the previous orders: a material input becomes scarce, the scarcity propagates through a system designed for efficiency rather than resilience, and the…
DEPENDENT STATUS, PROFESSIONAL DISPLACEMENT, AND THE ASSUMPTION OF ADULT INCAPACITY Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, EU INTRODUCTION The previous posts in this series examined the employer-sponsored visa as a choke point, the portable visa as anti-capture technology, and the startup city as the spatial…