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    D.M. Barach
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      04 — Access Denied

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      by D.M. Barach — Capitalist societies romanticise the individual who takes matters into their own hands. They call this initiative, or innovation. In fact, such an individual is interfering with a systemic solution and undermining confidence in a system's inherent reliability. A healthy society must depend on an implicit trust in its systemised responses, not sporadic personal intervention. It requires shared standards, coordinated response, and the confidence that no individual should solve a collective problem…
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      09 — Core

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      by D.M. Barach — The greatest threat to a harmonious system is not open rebellion, but private misalignment. An individual may continue to perform their assigned function, speak the approved language, and move within the prescribed channels, yet still become destabilising if they permit grief, suspicion, or personal dissatisfaction to supersede trust in the whole. Systemic failure begins as a minor divergence in perception long before it manifests as material disorder. —Naomi Feld, The Frictionless Economy: Principles…
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      07 — Requirements

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      by D.M. Barach — The economic models of our day are trapped in a cycle of dysfunction, obsessed with the three Rs of ruin. They are repair, reform and renewal. To mend a non-functional unit is to celebrate its idiosyncrasy. It is an act of sentiment, not economics. This sentimental attachment to flawed, unique objects is the same thinking that leads to nationalism and individualism. A truly rational economic system does not tolerate such aberrations, it demands standardisation. It replaces the non-functional unit to…
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      06 — Conditional

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      by D.M. Barach — A common critique of a fully planned economy is its hubris. We build our harmonious structures over the ruined foundations of the past, believing our new logic has erased the old. But the physical history, the forgotten infrastructure, the abandoned means of production and logistics, the lived in places—those always remain. We must remember that these spaces are not just historical artefacts, but ungoverned territories. And in any ungoverned territory, the brutal, inefficient, and primal economies of raw…
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