Tag: finance
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On Equitalism
I know capitalism isn’t working for us, and I know communism has failed. Chinese capitalism is just a very aggressive form of socialism, and though it works, it works by virtue of a culture that demands compliance and accepts mediocrity for the majority of the population. One evening I decided to try my hand at…
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On Technological Sovereignty
The economy is not an eternal and infallible means of arranging opportunity in society. It crashes, it favors certain groups, it often pigeonholes the majority of the population into a technological feudalist society. Right now so few people can afford housing outright in North America that the “middle class” can no longer reasonably have a…
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On Modern Budgets
Ive been doing a lot of math lately, studying what the budget of a middle class American was like at the height of the middle class [1972], and decided to figure out what a person could afford today if we wanted to maintain the same purchasing power, considering that they had 30% disposable income and…
Jack's New Ethos 