Core ThesisMany people believe humans are naturally greedy — that we are born wanting to pile up money for no reason. This is a convenient lie. In truth, we chase wealth not because we are selfish, but because we are scared. Life has been made unnecessarily hard by a small group of hoarders and landlords […]
Core ThesisThe AI revolution is the clearest example of Hoarder Capitalism—a system where productive assets (data, chips, and models) are stockpiled and fenced off, rather than circulated for the public good. The problem isn’t that tech companies are successful; it’s that they are converting society’s collective knowledge into private tollbooths. Unless we change the rules, […]
A Blueprint for Durable Worker Ownership Moving Beyond Symbolic Stock to Real Economic Participation I. Executive Summary Recent proposals to mandate employee stock ownership—most notably Mark Cuban’s call for federally required equity grants—correctly identify a fundamental problem: American workers are increasingly excluded from the wealth they help create. However, these proposals rely on a flawed […]
A Short Story Preface This story emerged from a simple question: What happens when we build machines so capable that they no longer need us, yet remain bound by our original instructions? The answer, I believe, is neither apocalypse nor utopia, but something far stranger—a world where both humans and machines become trapped in roles […]
A White Paper on the Geopolitical and Economic Implications of Abundant AI Executive Summary The twenty-first century’s defining economic transformation will not be artificial intelligence surpassing human intelligence. It will be intelligence becoming cheap. This white paper examines how autonomous systems, commodity-priced AI, and advanced robotics will fundamentally alter global economic structures, development pathways, and […]
A Critical Analysis of Arthur C. Clarke’s Vision and Its Relevance to the Age of Artificial Intelligence Introduction: Prophecy in Science Fiction Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End can be read as a remarkably prescient meditation on a possibility that has become increasingly relevant in the age of artificial intelligence: that humanity’s greatest achievement might also […]
A Comprehensive Framework for Analyzing How Political Decisions Really Get Made Introduction When citizens look at the political system, they often find themselves caught between two unsatisfying narratives. One narrative says that shadowy forces secretly control everything—elections are theater, policy is predetermined by hidden networks, and ordinary people have no real influence. This view offers […]
Chapter I Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last […]
Why Governments Must Be Forbidden from Borrowing The Unquestioned Assumption That Destroys Nations Modern governments possess a power that would have horrified the architects of democracy: the authority to spend money they do not have, issue obligations against citizens not yet born, and leave the bill for generations that had no voice in the decision. […]
PostgreSQL’s jsonb type is incredibly useful when you need flexible, semi-structured data. But a common question eventually comes up: If I store a value inside JSONB, how do I sort by it efficiently? For example, suppose we have: And the data column contains: We can sort by age like this: This works perfectly. But on […]