Economics

Optimization is gentrification

Gentrification, like most entropic processes in life, is bittersweet. It makes a neighborhood…

Dialectical Materialism: The Other Social Darwinism

How BJP is wavering the pillars of democracy and inching towards a totalitarian regime

Slumdogs and Millionaires

Greetings from Nairobi!

I just recorded my first Facebook Live from Kibera slum this morning. It was pretty crazy — Kibera is an informal settlement with nearly a million people living beside open sewers and giant trash heaps.

The Good Employer’s Manifesto

Your heart must earn a living wage.
Your bones must contribute
to the well being of the few.

We cannot afford illness.
It is unprofitable.
Your breath must be privatised
for the good of all.

Demonetization

When your house is burgled every day because the lock has become ineffective or the duplicate keys are with many antisocial people, What do you do?

You change the lock, not demolish the entire house.

From a Rust Belt intellectual: Trump’s election is not about hate (at least not the way you think)

Do You Get Out of Bed in the Morning to Make Money for Billionaires?