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The Poor Rich
Strange lessons from the Netflix show ‘How To Get Rich’
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How, Economically, We’re Fucked
Economists believe the equivalent of the sun going around the Earth, with far worse consequences
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How, Mathematically, We’re Fucked
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Exponential growth on a finite planet does not end well, whatever form it takes
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How, Financially, We’re Fucked
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Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be paid
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The Folly Of Progress
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We’re making asteroids of ourselves
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Sri Lanka Is Colonized Again
This time by the Americans and the IMF
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Raising Interest Rates Is Just The Rich Stealing From The Poor
The economic equivalent of blood-letting
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A Sri Lankan Ghost Story
A note from a dead future
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How Big Business Makes Everything LESS Efficient
Obscene profits are the greatest market inefficiency
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The Failure Of Capitalism As An Ideology
And its continuing zombie existence, eating brains
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How Energy Is The Economy
And how ‘The Economy’ lives and dies
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Investment Advice For The Apocalypse
Get right with god, with the earth, and with your community
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How The Economist Is The Worst Propaganda
As illustrated with 25 Economist covers
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We’re Going Into Fossil Fuel Withdrawal
We should quit, but even slowing down gives us the shakes
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If It Ain’t Fixed, Break It
The neoliberal logic that destroys public goods
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Sri Lanka And The Collapse Of Global Liberalism
Sri Lanka is a systemic collapse, and you live in the same system too
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How Sri Lanka Is A Neoliberal Tragedy
Sri Lanka was the first South Asian country to neoliberalize, and the first to fall
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Borders Are For Poor People
My experience in a visa line
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How Sri Lanka Is Caught In A Western Debt Trap
China is only 10% of Sri Lanka debt. Where do you think the rest is from?
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Economists Are Calling For Human Sacrifice Now
To satisfy the inflation gods, there must be blood
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Global Famine Has Already Begun
‘Food insecurity’ is just a fancy word for famine
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How Capitalism Has Collapsed In My Sri Lanka
And how it’s coming for you
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The World Needs A Recession. Forever
GDP is a dead end. We’ve got to go back and start over
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Bitcoin Has Become A Victim Of Its Own Success
Bitcoin got so mainstream that it’s drowning in it
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How Clothes Started Wearing Us
From slavery to wage-slavery to fast fashion
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Worshiping The Rich
Beggars at my doorstep, bowing before the wrong person
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How Merchants Became The New Nobility
The movement of caste
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Why Crypto Will Crash Hard And Come Back Long
Geologically speaking
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The Economy Is Far Too Important To Be Left To Economists
How economists are the worst
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How Crypto Is Like Early Corporations
And how they’re both artificial life
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How The Rich Get Richer Under Austerity
It’s prosperity for the rich, austerity for the poor
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7 Ways The IMF Sucks
And 7 common-sense alternatives for Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka Is On Fire And Nobody’s Talking About Water
Sri Lanka needs to make real changes to the real economy
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How The Rich Gambled Away Our World
Stock markets are just gambling, and they’ve bet the family house
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How Elon Musk’s Wealth Isn’t Real
And how ‘the economy’ is bullshit also
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Why Crisis Is The Time To Build
Sri Lanka needs to build its way out of crisis, not borrow our way into the next one
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Notes From The Future Of Fucked
If you’re wondering what shortages and instability are like, lemme tell you
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What America’s Budget Tells You About America’s Values
America values old people at home and dead people abroad
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How Sri Lanka Has Fallen Into Darkness
We have 13 hour powercuts now, and people are enraged
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America’s Infrastructure Bubble Is Going Pop
America’s car-driven development was a Ponzi scheme, and it’s all coming down
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America Is A Poor Country In A Gucci Belt
How American poverty looks to a Sri Lankan
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The Buck Stops Here: How America Is Destroying The Dollar
You can only sanction and steal so much
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The Richest Men Are Not Really Rich
They’re just gamblers holding racing slips
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White Empire Is Playing Russian Roulette With Sanctions
Blowing their own brains out with a golden gun
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Biden Is Holding An Economic Hot Potato
When the economy crashes, so will US democracy
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The Tyranny Of Averages
How GDP can go up while people are dying
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Why Capitalism Keeps Falling Over
Sometimes the simplest way to move forward is to keep building towers and crashing them.
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Why Capitalism Is A Dead Faith
That’s me in the corner, losing my religion
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America Is Ruled By COVID Cowards
They’ve just given up
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The 3 Signs Of A Coming Crash
History, inequality, and yelling