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The Poor Rich
Strange lessons from the Netflix show ‘How To Get Rich’
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The Lie At The Heart Of Consumer Society
We know that consumer goods degrade, but the place they come from supposedly doesn’t
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How, Financially, We’re Fucked
[free post]
Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be paid
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The Existential Terror Of Amazon Prime
How next-day delivery is the new opiate of the masses
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How Big Business Makes Everything LESS Efficient
Obscene profits are the greatest market inefficiency
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Investment Advice For The Apocalypse
Get right with god, with the earth, and with your community
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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 The Rich Are Doing In Sri Lanka’s Collapse
Just fine, thank you
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How I’m Betting Against A Crashing Market
Selling western civilization short
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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 The Rich Get Richer Under Austerity
It’s prosperity for the rich, austerity for the poor
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One Actual Use Case For Crypto
The crypto hawala system
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How Elon Musk’s Wealth Isn’t Real
And how ‘the economy’ is bullshit also
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Are We Nearing The Final Crash Of Capitalism?
Every crisis is an opportunity for revolution
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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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The Richest Men Are Not Really Rich
They’re just gamblers holding racing slips
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The Beggars Of Capitalism
The poverty at our doorsteps
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Why Corporations Are Getting Rich Off Plague And War
They’re not human beings. It honestly doesn’t affect them
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How AI Evolved In Money
Chapter 3 of Das Kapital: dat money
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How Easy It Is Making Money From A Newsletter (It’s Not)
How much money I make from this newsletter.
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The Sadness Of Plenty
Whenever my daughter asks me for something we can give it. So many parents can't.
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How America Loves Killing More Than Life Itself (In 5 Graphs)
Every American budget is a murder-suicide pact
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Manchin And Sinema Are Just Corrupt
It ain't that complicated y'all
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How I Finally Understood Crypto (Thru Animal Farm)
Crypto is just the idea that 'hey, if those fuckers can make up money, so can we.'
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America Has A Terminal Case Of Capitalism (In Two Charts)
Just follow the money
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The War On Afghanistan Was A $2 Trillion Scam
America just pumped-and-dumped an entire country
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How 'Rich' Nations Are Actually Poor
Climate debt gives places like the US, Europe, and Australia a negative net worth
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I Had To Leave America To Live The American Dream
Americans need to seriously consider migrating
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What Marrying Into Money Taught Me About Capitalism
The game is rigged. I know because I’m winning
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How The US Legalized Corruption
White people use funny words for bribes
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Wealth Is A Handout. What Do You Think Interest Is?
Rich people get paid for not working. That’s why it’s called capitalism, not laborism
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Why I Talk About Being Rich
Breaking the first rule of capitalism (don’t talk about capitalism)
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Being Rich Is Not Hard Work
Working is for schmucks. Interest is for capitalists
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How I Wrote The Highest Earning Post On Medium
July was a lucky month
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Free Market = Open Borders
A truly free market would double world GDP
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How Parasite Is A Haunted House Story
Horror capitalism
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Why Studying Successful Founders Is Pointless
Might as well ask a pachinko ball how it won
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A Design For A Paid Internet
What if the whole thing was a paywall?
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How Fundraising Costs Founders Money
And how it can doom your company
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The Incredibly Long Lifespan Of Medium Content
Old stories earn the most money
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Cheat To Win: How To Really Think Like A Billionaire
Avoid work, avoid taxes, and cover it all up
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Quitting My Job To Write On Medium
Getting back to my old salary, in my underwear
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The Best Startup Advice: Start Rich
The most important thing is to choose your parents
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Uber’s Rise And Fall In One Map
How Uber won and lost the world
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How Rap Became The Soundtrack Of The 1%
I’m always struck by how similar the lifestyles of rappers and financiers are. Same cars, same watches, same private jets.