Living like God in France is easier to do when you live in France.
Why Americans are nearly working themselves to death and all they have to show for it is bigger trucks.
Nostr, Curated Thoughtfully
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Stella
American Disneyland
Why I am vacationing in Europe. Again.
We Can Send Merz Out to the Golf Course
Why voting is the worst way to determine who will govern, excepting all of the other ways.
The Abundance Cage
What if the most dangerous prison ever built has no walls, no guards, and comes with a guaranteed income? Musk's Universal High Income proposal isn't a safety net but it's the final move in a game where "the technology oligarch who proposes UHI is not a philanthropist; he is the architect of a closed loop." Eight billion people rendered economically redundant, wholly dependent on the benevolence of the men who own the machines, history has a word for that arrangement. It wasn't called freedom then either.
Financial Repression and the March Toward Serfdom
The Dutch government just declared war on private capital and most Europeans don't even know it yet. The Netherlands' Box 3 reform imposes a 36% tax on unrealized gains across stocks, bonds, and crypto, forcing ordinary citizens to liquidate real assets to pay for paper profits they haven't made. The sophisticated wealthy will restructure offshore but the schoolteacher with an index fund will not. What follows is an indictment of one of the most destructive fiscal policies in modern European history and a defiant blueprint for how free people can build their way out of it.
Central Planning is a Problem for Charities
Why concentrated wealth is so terribly difficult to spend, even if you donate it.
