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An Introduction to Capital Flow
Capital flow, the moving and swelling and shifting of value, is an emergent property of the interaction between humans and money. Wherever we find money, we…
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The Future Smells of Inevitability and Question Marks
Whether or not we are here to experience it, and whether or not you care, the future is inevitably going to happen, and every single moment…
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Positive Feedback Loops
Feedback loops are systems where some or all of the system's output is used again as input. Positive feedback loops are versions of such systems where…
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Capital’s Gravity
Capital, like our too-tricky-to-prove-but-too-critical-to-ignore-quantum-physics-friend the graviton, exhibits certain qualities that have gravitational effects on external parties. Specifically, the more capital that aggregates together, the greater the…
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Bad Faith
In daily life, of course, there is no avoiding some version of the principal-agent problem: in every instance, who is really acting in whose best interest?…
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Patrimonial Capitalism
Patrimonial capitalism is an unfortunately common state of affairs throughout most of capitalism-as-usual’s history. Due to the laws and regulations in the United States, particularly those…
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Phishing for Phools
Phishing—as defined by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller in their book Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception —happens when one economic…
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Mitigating Greed
Since capital flow (as in: the ways in which money moves through the systems designed for money to move) is blind to ethics, morals, locality, race,…
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Education & Emergence
Capitalism itself fundamentally emerges from the simple elements of individual agents participating in trade. As soon as intangible concepts like “money”, “interest” and “profit” are incorporated…
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About “Simpletism”
Simpletism can be defined as the conversion of complexity into more-rudimentary components so that a “simpler” version of parts may be understood in order to find…
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On Ecosystems
The term “ecosystem” is frequently used in both natural and, at least these days, many business contexts. Considering that an “ecological system” describes the nature of…
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Exploit-ees
Let’s cut right to the chase: the reality of being an employee is not actually what it’s made out to seem like. Even the inclusion of…
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Capitalism’s Creature Compendium
Presented in the following section is a selection of qualities exhibited by the system of capitalism-as-usual. Since capital flow fundamentally emerges from human existence, it is…
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It’s the Environment, Stupid!
Let's get right into it, shall we? Since each individual is the only such individual who has experienced the entirety of her own historical timeline from…
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