All the swindlers in the world have only one trick: they fabricate a glorious past, promise you an exciting future, and then ask you to sacrifice your present.
The Human Mine
Stop trying to understand the economy through traditional metrics like GDP, CPI, or innovation indexes. If you look at the system as a country trying to “develop,” the contradictions are baffling. But if you use First Principles thinking and view the system as a “Mining Operation” designed for a final cash-out, everything suddenly makes perfect sense. We are not living in a nation-state accumulating strength; we are living in a resource extraction zone where the resource is you. ...