The Natural Selection of Money There is a familiar way of narrating history. It features oppressors and victims, conquerors and the conquered, and it assigns moral valence to deeds and outcomes. This framework is not wrong — power has been wielded cruelly, and the suffering caused has been real. But it is incomplete in a … Continue reading The Monetary Lens: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity Through the Architecture of Money, Part I
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Copernicus, Wittgenstein, Gold, and The Dollar
In my previous post, I described how the Bretton Woods agreement placed the U.S. dollar at the center of the global financial system; how that embeddedness deepened over decades; and how the structural mechanics of that arrangement generated the imbalances we now experience as geopolitical strain, excessive financialization, and social fragmentation. Running quietly beneath that … Continue reading Copernicus, Wittgenstein, Gold, and The Dollar
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