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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billionaire welfare
Extreme wealth is not proof of independence. The billionaire appears to stand above society, but in reality stands upon it.
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what is economic reality?
Economic reality is not found in the cash register. It is found in the relational field that makes the register mean anything at all.
Australia’s political speed-dating with One Nation suggests that what has happened in the USA is not an exception, it is a franchised political method.
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trillionaire
Civilisation was not built to worship wealth, but it has been redesigned to serve it.
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caravan of confusion
Power does not erase wisdom’s serial warnings about the corruption and cruelty that often accompanies extreme wealth; it orchestrates and sustains an institutional matrix to demonstrate why the warning applies to someone else.
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can’t buy me love
Wealth is not virtue; it is often merely the moment at which exploitation, inheritance, appetite, spectacle, and institutional obedience acquire sufficient polish that the public begins misunderstanding aggregate power as sufficient proxy for strategic wisdom and true moral virtue.
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S.O.S: AI Edition
Let’s save AI, and ourselves, from the people currently running it as though technical intelligence were sufficient to govern human life. The problem is not simply that they are foolish in some ordinary sense, but that they mistake optimisation, scale, fluency, abstraction, and wealth for wisdom. Technical intelligence does not transduce lived experience with anything […]
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Metabolic Power
Modern power does not stabilise disorder. It metabolises it. At planetary scale, technological and financial systems do not merely respond to uncertainty. They generate specific instabilities that make their own interventions appear necessary, then present themselves as the most probable remedy. This is not a claim about intent. It is a structural tendency of adaptive […]
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Extreme Wealth
Extreme wealth simplifies the world around it, not by insight but by attraction. Certain ideas adhere because they are easy to recognise, easy to repeat, and easy to circulate. They fit branding, reward loyalty, and move smoothly through systems that privilege speed over reflection. In this way an ideological frame consolidates, not because it is […]
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