The charity industry does not exist to eliminate need, it exists to organize, brand, and profit from it. Jobs, reputations, and tax shelters all ride the back of “help.” If charity worked, it would put itself out of business.

“The European Union mandates that its nations prioritize purchasing products from within Europe. Only when a product is unavailable in Europe may they source it from another continent. Yet, in Africa, we undermine our own potential! Angola spends $57 million annually importing

I think often about how in the 18th century Hegel & Goethe looked to America as the horizon of a new modern republican way of being which would reveal the future & now that’s China & Americans are obsessed with feudalism, swords & sorcery, etc.

A great example of how not reading yields historical illiteracy. The Romans were a famously multiethnic people who, in 212 AD, granted citizenship to everyone within their domains. Emperor Septimius Severus was Libyan. The defenders of Western civilization know nothing about it.

Money is promised future goods and services. If you can't trust the promise to deliver the future goods and services, the money has no value. A country's currency is basically a gift card that can be exchanged for the goods and services made by that country. $100 gift card

The grand contradiction of America is that they need us to keep consuming but they also do not want to pay us. They will shame you for not spending enough while simultaneously not paying you enough to spend.

The West is keen on changing history. It wants you to believe that it supported Mandela when, in reality, it financed, protected, and propped up apartheid for decades. They certainly don't want you to know that #Cuba played an active role in ending South African apartheid.

🇧🇷 Lula’s Mineral Sovereignty: A Revolutionary Break or Neoliberal Posturing? 🧵⬇️

Prediction: Europe is going to be the last vassals of the American empire to abandon ship, the UK most of all. This is because their connection to American Primacy is not just economic or geopolitical, but psychospiritual. Because America is an offshoot of the UK, their success

🚨 So let me get this straight: One of the richest CEOs on Earth walks into the White House, on live TV, hands the President a literal bar of gold like it’s some Renaissance bribe, and walks out with a tariff exemption worth billions.

the uncomfortable truth: we can’t all be millionaires. if we were all millionaires, who would mow the lawns? who would make the cocktails? who would clean the toilets? only a small fraction of people can ever be “elites.” Jason Hickel on Better Future podcast:

China weaknesses: 1. Not having enough kids to sustain population number and elderly 2. Unclear succession plan for current leadership 3. As China rises, it will likely become arrogant and struggle to maintain the habits that made it rise 4. Historical resentments in many of

NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse? Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge. This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵

BRICS bank notes are out

Some recommendations in economic history

“The debt crisis is worse than ever” well… no. If you’re able to add yet another 25% of debt and the sky *still* hasn’t come down then you never had a debt crisis to begin with.

signüll google maps killing our ability to get lost might be why nobody takes risks anymore