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Philosophy

The Intimacy of Death

We can contemplate the absence of experience only through experience itself. The deepest sadness is not that we die, but how readily we diminish the extraordinary possibility of being alive.

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Philosophy

The Concentration of Wealth and the Geometry of Freedom

The problem is not capitalism or competition, but the concentration of wealth and power that progressively undermines the conditions through which meaningful competition, economic freedom and social resilience remain possible.