In 1850, a dying French economist named Frédéric Bastiat sat down and wrote a short book called The Law. He had tuberculosis. He had months to live. And he was furious. He was not furious about taxes, exactly. He was not furious about politicians, exactly. He was furious about something much weirder and much more […]
I Read “The Law” So You Do Not Have To: Here Is Why You Are Being Robbed (Bastiat) Read More »
There is an old joke from the Soviet era that goes like this. A worker says to his boss, “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.” Everyone laughs. Then everyone goes home to an empty fridge. That joke is not really a joke. It is an economic theory wearing a clown nose.
Zero Profit, Zero Effort: The Marxist Incentive Death Read More »
Somewhere in a coffee shop right now, a person is telling another person how slammed they are. Their week is insane. They have not had a proper weekend in months. They are running on four hours of sleep and three espressos. They say all of this while sitting still, drinking a latte, with absolutely no
In 1845, a French economist named Frédéric Bastiat sat down and wrote one of the most devastating pieces of satire in the history of economics. It was called “The Candlemakers’ Petition,” and it pretended to be a formal complaint from the makers of candles, lamps, and lanterns. Their grievance? A foreign competitor was flooding the
The Bot-Made Petition: If Robots Could Write a Letter to the Government Read More »
There is a phrase that has wormed its way into every corporate handbook, every LinkedIn post, every wellness seminar held in a windowless conference room with stale pastries. That phrase is work-life balance. It sounds noble. It sounds like progress. It sounds like something your employer cares about because there is a poster about it
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There is a strange little secret hiding inside every fair system ever built. You can hand everyone the same starting line, the same rulebook, the same coach, and the same shoes. You can scrub the playing field clean of every bias you can identify. And yet, when the dust settles, a small group will end
The Pareto Paradox: Why Equal Opportunity Always Creates Unequal Outcomes Read More »
Karl Marx died in 1883. He never saw a ring light. He never watched someone unbox a package on camera while whispering about a discount code. He never encountered the phrase “link in bio.” And yet, if you sat him down in front of Instagram for fifteen minutes, he would probably nod slowly and say
Karl Marx on Influencer Culture: Are You the Product or the Producer? Read More »
You already know who they are. You could name them right now. The coworker who generates 80% of your headaches. The client who eats 80% of your patience. The family member who causes 80% of the drama at every gathering. You have probably known for months, maybe years. And yet, somehow, they are still there.
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There is a peculiar irony at the heart of Marxist thought that few people sit with long enough to feel uncomfortable. Karl Marx, a man who spent his life in libraries, who argued furiously with rivals, who wrote thousands of pages of dense theory, built a system that, when applied, tended to silence the very
There is something almost comedic about imagining Karl Marx hunched over a laptop, typing prompts into ChatGPT. The man who spent decades in the British Museum scribbling notes about the exploitation of factory workers would now be asking a machine to summarize his own theories. But the question is not really about Marx the person.
Would Karl Marx Use ChatGPT? Automation and the End of Labor Read More »