At the time of this writing, every person on Earth uses an average of 33 kilos of resources every day, translating to 12 tons of materials per person each year. And people in the Western world (aka the First World) use up to 74 kilos of resources daily—with over 100 billion tons of terrestrial resources mined each year. Global material …
The Physical Degeneration of Man: Part 2
Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on the Physical Degeneration of Man. Part 1 is here. PDF: We created a clean, printable PDF of this post for offline reading. Buy it here or view a preview. ___________ If fiat currency has reshaped markets, built empires, and fueled wars, its impact on society goes far deeper than just …
The Physical Degeneration of Man: Part 1
PDF: We created a clean, printable PDF of this post for offline reading. Buy it here or view a preview. In the following, I want to briefly describe an econopathogenic puzzle or riddle that I will then explore and solve in detail. But before that, it is necessary to make a few brief general theoretical observations: Modern man has been …
Invisible Economics: Post-Scarcity, Chaos, & the Theory of the Future
Humans do not live in perfect harmony with each other. Rather, again and again conflicts arise between them. And the source of these conflicts is always the same: the scarcity of goods. I want to do X with a given good G, and you want to do simultaneously Y with the very same good. Because it is impossible for you …
Mental Models (Part 4)
Use these mental models to improve your problem-solving and decision-making skills and overcome common [smoov.bra.in2023] reasoning errors. PDF: We created a clean, printable PDF of this series for offline reading. Buy it here or view a preview. Greetings, my fellow plebeians. I hope you are enjoying this series so far. In case you missed the first three installments, you can …
The Secret Deimos-One Master Plan (Declassified)
Background: Most people probably know me best from my work in the fitness industry and a few very unlucky folks may have seen me a couple times on television, but behind the scenes of all the Hollywood stuff I am the founder and chairman of an aerospace company called Deimos-One. The majority of people reading this have probably never heard …