Our values influence the questions we ask. “Studies show that women in traditional religious communities with dense communal structures report high satisfaction — often higher than women in the “liberated” middle. A standard social scientist, formed by the assumption that… Read More »The Data Doesn’t Speak
It is about values. “The danger isn’t that modern people are optimizing toward the wrong end — pursuing status when they should pursue family, or wealth when they should pursue meaning. The danger is that optimization has become a mode… Read More »The Optimization Trap: Why the Birth Rate Can’t Be Fixed
We are currently spending tens of billions to train machines to think and to be honest, the results are not that great still. What if we invested all the money into educating all the people that are living right now?… Read More »Billions on Education
Immigrants might be taking our crime jobs. And crime still goes down despite.
We are moving back to Serfdom.
It is not great powers competing, it is Game of Thrones.
Even fiction can be grounded in economy. “our protagonists aren’t typical Hobbits. Bilbo, Frodo, Merry, and Pippin are all very clearly members of the landed gentry, the landowning class that controls most means of economic production and maintains social dominance… Read More »The Moral Economy of the Shire
World is changing rapidly and what is true today won’t be so in a few decades. “It’s difficult to state just how stark and catastrophic of a collapse this is. The number of births in China fell by 17% in… Read More »Let’s save the human species!
New Rome is in trouble. “Empires do not end because they want to. They end because the numbers leave no alternative.” https://nitishastra.substack.com/p/how-debt-bankrupted-the-british-empire
How people get food dictates structure of a society in a major way. “one of the best ways to start thinking about any historical society is to begin with the subsistence foundation it is built on, because how people get… Read More »Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and Clients