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September 25, 2025
** ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS
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** How Mutual Aid Cared for My Grandmother
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A private membership home run by a women’s sisterhood gave my grandmother eight years of dignified, affordable care. It felt like family, not a facility—because community, not compliance, set the rules. Then regulators reclassified it, and the model that had worked so beautifully, for so long, was changed forever.
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BIG GOVERNMENT
** Markets Don’t Fail…Governments Do
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Markets must persuade; governments can compel. Profit and loss disciplines firms to serve people, while taxation and inflation shield the state from failure. If we judged the state by market standards, we’d call its “business model” coercive, not essential.
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ECONOMICS
** High-Status Opinions vs Luxury Beliefs: The Economics of the “Great Awokening”
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Status hasn’t disappeared—it’s just changed form. Today, radical stances and “high-status opinions” often function as social signals, clustering together in ways that shape belonging and identity. This shift helps explain the cultural dynamics of the Great Awokening.
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ARTICLE HIGHLIGHT
** Flowing Beneath the Grid
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Parallel economies are more than rebellion—they’re resilience. From barter to Bitcoin, from farmers’ markets to micro-schools, people keep finding ways to flow around the fortress of regulation. These underground channels show how human ingenuity refuses to wait for permission.
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