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All Three Pillars Holding Up the Economy Have Cracked
All three pillars propping up workforce spending are cracking. Plan accordingly.
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The Precipice Few See
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The Big Shining Lie: We're Better Off Now--No, We're Poorer, Much Poorer
This is proof-positive we're not just poorer now than we were 40 years ago, we're much, much poorer.
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Grey Swans Are Circling
The lifestyle of a stable New Gilded Age is out of stock.
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The Three Types of Elites
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What Happened to Integrity and Honor?
The hope here is that facing the reality of moral collapse frees us of the delusion that fiddling with technocratic financial abstractions and policy…
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Fix This or Nothing Else Matters
The top 10% are the dog sipping a drink as the cafe burns down, saying "this is fine."
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November 2024

Truth, Beauty and the Unseen Craftsperson
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Really Authentic Authenticity Package (TM) now 50% Off
What renders everything phony, BS, inauthentic, is that everything important is cloaked to hide the deeply artificial nature of the entire setup.
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Slashing $2 Trillion from "The Swamp"--Three Things
There is no way to cut federal spending without reconfiguring the economy from the ground up, starting with healthcare.
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"Superheroes" Reflect Our Powerlessness
And so we end up back in MovieLand, where we vicariously experience having powers we do not possess in real life.
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Blissful Ignorance is Blissfully Deceptive
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