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Upstairs Subsidies: Bailouts, Class, and the American Idea of Capitalism
In U.S. crises, public money moves fastest through pipes that already exist for capital. Banks receive oxygen in hours; households receive forms. The result is a recovery that tilts upward. This essay maps the architecture of those upstairs subsidies, the class and political consequences, and a.
The Consent Economy: Big Tech vs the People
The country is a mirror, but the mirror charges admission. From lobbying ledgers to algorithmic feeds, from data extraction to political influence, the machinery of consent has been privatized. A systems anatomy of how wealth, technology, and power intersect to reshape democracy.
"When Life Was Swell": What Made 1950s America Feel Great
The 1950s feel "great" in American memory because a rare alignment of structure and sentiment briefly made prosperity look simple: Roosevelt-era institutions set the floor; postwar demand and geopolitical luck raised the ceiling; the Cold War paid for laboratories and launchpads; rivals lay in.
The Vanishing Rungs: How U.S. Taxes Tilted, Why Inequality Grew, and What to Fix (1970s → 2025)
A good tax code is a ladder you can climb and a floor you can stand on. Since the 1970s, we've quietly shaved rungs off the ladder at the top—capital income taxed more gently, corporate rates falling—and replaced them with tacks on the floor. This essay maps that drift with numbers, not slogans,.