Extreme wealth is not independence. It is an unusually successful dependence upon everyone else.
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the strange ontology of power
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the value of nothing
The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.
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wealth drag
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.
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