The Debtors’ Prison Notebooks

Robinhood and the Dark Cave of Capitalism

Earlier in 2021, which could be late in the pandemic if you live in a rich country, or very early in the pandemic if you live in a poor country, armchair market traders were up in their armchairs over the perceived injustice of the trading app Robinhood. In…

The Designated Hitter is not baseball, it’s Capitalism

Voting in Capitalism

As we ramp up for yet another American voting cycle, in which ubiquitous and identical political ads argue for the “choice” between candidates from only two parties, and this particular cycle unfolds against the backdrop of sweeping and righteously-angry protest against racial inequality in…

It’s not FOMO. It’s Capitalism.

There are many feelings or sensations that we experience which appear so natural as to seem inherent to our very existence. Often times when these feelings or sensations arise, we will chide ourselves for having them and then push them aside or even to the forefront of our…

Religious Weakness

Religions provide important things, in theory. The most important, the most serviceable for practitioners the world over, is a way of thinking about life and death so that what we experience now, being alive, is not thought to be the end of all that we will experience. An afterlife is such a…