Future
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Every election is a filter, and the filter has exactly one setting. It selects for people who want power. Everything else about a candidate varies, their party, their talent, their honesty, but the wanting is constant, because the wanting is the price of entry. We have built our entire system of government on the hope…
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Law has spent four thousand years inserting a human being between the rule and the punishment. The judge, the jury, the question of what you meant to do, the plea for mercy, the appeal. All of it exists for one reason: somewhere along the way we decided that a rule applied automatically produces cruelty in…
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The stock market was always two things wearing one coat. Underneath, a casino. On top, a respectable institution for funding the future. The genius of the exchange was convincing everyone that these were the same activity, that when you placed your bet you were also building a railway. For four hundred years that coat held…