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. ...