On Medium: The Best Businesses Are Evil

Read on about capitalism’s amoral logic and the incoherence of liberalism.

On Medium: The Scientistic Ruse of Hiding the Economist’s Morality

Read on about scientism and the role of moral philosophy in the economic evaluation of communism and capitalism.

On Medium: The Global Prominence of Bait-and-Switch Frauds

Read on about how to notice the hooks hiding behind the flashy lures in the normalized frauds of religion and capitalism.

On Medium: Why America Bet Everything on AI, and China Excels at Manufacturing

Here's an article about the culture clash between fraudulent individualism and pragmatic humanism, a clash that explains the difference between American and Chinese economic priorities.

On Medium: The Slipperiness of Conservative Economics

Read on about why conservatives have craved both free-market and centrally controlled economies, and whether these opposite views can be reconciled.

On Medium: Is Trumpism Ideological or Psychotic?

Here's an article about a superficial clash between explanations of Trump’s second presidential term, and whether his regime is guided by mental disorder or right-wing ideology.

On Medium: The Sci-Fi Allure of Curtis Yarvin’s Anarcho-Capitalism

Read on about whether Curtis Yarvin's New Right political principles--timelessness, neutrality, vitality, realism, and absolutism--are incoherent, neomedieval, or both.

On Medium: Big Tech Tribalism Crowds Out Science’s Humanist Ethos

Here's an article about the irony of capitalism’s neofeudal impact on society, and the clash between science's humanism and capitalism's fostering of tribalism.

On Medium: Art’s Purpose When AIs Generate All Possible Contents

Read on about why human artists will carry on even when AIs dwarf human abilities by producing all possible human art and storing it on a mighty thumb drive.

On Medium: Dispense with the Confused Ambition of Earning “F-You Money”

Here's an article about the popular goal of earning financial independence as a way to brush off social demands, and why the poor are likely mentally freer than the rich.

On Medium: Are Monopolies Evil Geniuses or Blundering Fools?

Read on about whether monopolies are likely to be inefficient rather than the evil geniuses we might imagine them to be, given the case study of Canada’s telecom sector.

On Medium: Selling Superstardom with the Myth of the Hero’s Journey

Here's an article about the clash between the model of adventure and the Pareto principle, and how the myth of the hero's journey is propaganda for the minority of superstars.

On Medium: Is Secular Thought Progressive or Self-Destructive?

Here's an article about the postmodern condition, the liberal’s faith in rational self-interest, and whether modern skepticism and individualism are liable to support a progressive society.

On Medium: Game-Theoretic Purgatory and the Neoliberal’s Faith in Capitalism

Here's an article about egoism, cooperation, Punxsutawney Phil from “Groundhog Day,” and how neoliberals stretch game theory to support their faith in capitalism.

On Medium: How the Prisoner of Game Theory Torches Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand”

Here's an article about the neoliberal critique of morality, the arbitrariness of game theory, and how economists went from being optimistic to pessimistic about capitalism.

On Medium: How Neoliberals Exploit Economic Scientism to Justify Plutocracy

Here's an article about the orthodox economist's physics envy, the model of the economy as an abstract quasi-physical system, and the neoliberal myth of the free market.

On Medium: Has the “Bullshit Jobs” Theory Been Debunked?

Here's an article about David Graeber’s tactical error, and the economic causes of BS jobs (managerial feudalism and capitalism’s growing financialization).

On Medium: How We Hide the Conflict Between Capitalism and Technological Progress

Read on about Luddites, the transhuman aristocracy, and how "bullshit jobs" and technophilism hide the conflict between capitalism and technological progress.

On Medium: Why We Can’t Imagine the End of Capitalism

Read on about collective rationalizations and mind-control, the shifting meaning of “capitalism,” and how societies hide their downside with culture.

On Medium: Economics and Physics Envy

Here's an article about monetary objectification, the unnaturalness of societies,  the bureaucratic mindset, and the economist's scientistic temptations.