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Are Antistate Libertarians Hypocrites Re: Voluntary Agreements?
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26 Jan 2026
Is the current State just an enormous and (highly dysfunctional) "ancap voluntaryist enclave" already, and libertarians are actually the NAP-breaking enemies of civil agreement?
Since ChatGPT launched, job openings are down 30% while the stock market is up 70%. One economist says the true culprit isn’t AI, but monetary policy | Fortune
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3 Nov 2025
The money has been removed from the currency
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19 Oct 2025
Government currency used to be money. The money has been siphoned out, but the currency hasn't changed.
Paleo and Hierarchy; Optimization Target Misalignment Across Scales
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3 Jul 2025
The grain-based diet emerged not because it was best for individuals, but because it was best for controlling populations
Paleo and Hierarchy; Optimization Target Misalignment Across Scales
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3 Jul 2025
The grain-based diet emerged not because it was best for individuals, but because it was best for feeding and controlling populations
Another Currency Debasement Analogy - Home Square Footage
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1 Jul 2025
Coming at you with an additional YASDA - Yet Another Simple Debasement Analogy. This time using physical space as a reference.
On the Theft of Human Time
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26 Jun 2025
A meditation on an 1899 gold coin reveals the palpable, indisputable truth of how our time is stolen from us and what the world would be like if that were otherwise.
The CPI is a Lie: Keeping Up With Inflation Means Downgrading Your Diet
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27 Feb 2025
Inflation heavily penalized the maintenance of a healthy diet. Each decade saw such a diet get relatively more expensive, especially for categories like red meat and dairy. In contrast, Americans who embraced cheaper substitutes and new, processed foods managed to keep their food spending growth below the inflation that a healthy diet would incur. This behavior-adjustment – switching from costly whole foods to economical processed and alternative foods – has been a key reason the reported CPI for food rose more slowly. But it obscures the fact that quality of life has dropped and health has declined.
