Wealth is usually treated as evidence that society is working. But extreme accumulation may also reveal something stranger: a system increasingly organised around preserving wealth, whether or not that preservation still serves the world around it.
Nietzsche once suggested that metaphysics is about as useful to the struggles and uncertainties of embodied life as would be knowledge of the chemical composition of water to a boatman facing a storm. The force of the remark is not hostility to thought but a boundary placed around it. In conditions of living and existential […]
Capitalism is not in and of itself evil. It emerged as a decentralised coordination mechanism: a way to allocate resources, distribute risk, and accelerate innovation in a world too complex for central planning. Markets lifted living standards, expanded technological capabilities, and enabled mobility across class and geography. Yet the same dynamics that reward initiative also […]
No one owns anything (or anyone!), in any ultimate sense. Deal with it. 🙂
Daedelus Kite 