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    D.M. Barach
    author of - A Frictionless State

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    • 23 — Resolved

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      by D.M. Barach — Every failing system eventually reveals what it truly values. Strip away ceremony, rhetoric, and law, and the answer is always the same: what will it kill to preserve, and what will it sacrifice without regret? In moments of open crisis, economics loses its abstractions. It becomes a visible contest over whose lives count as necessary and whose are treated as cost. —Naomi Feld, Interdependency: A New Economic Model Alene anchored herself in the centre of the Francis Crick Institute lab, her…
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    • 21 — Junction

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      by D.M. Barach — A closed system cannot tolerate accumulation. Just as a biological organism must excrete toxins to survive, a healthy economic body must have efficient mechanisms for the disposal of non-productive elements. We must not view this expulsion as cruelty, but as a necessary hygiene. The system must be flushed to remain pure. —Naomi Feld, The Economic Renewal Fallacy: A Theory of Replacement The door marked Junction 44 was unlocked. Ari pushed it open. Inside he found a small, circular maintenance hub,…
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    • 22 — Refactored

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      by D.M. Barach — Corruption is never exposed by the people who profit most directly from it. More often it is exposed when a system becomes too greedy and begins to misuse its own instruments. Those who bend procedure once may go unnoticed. Those who bend it everywhere leave a pattern. Excess is the enemy of concealment. —Naomi Feld, The Tyranny of Want: Causal Factors in Modern Conflict Dax had watched the entire bloody circus from the terrace of St James's Café. Protestors seeking nourishment had formed a long…
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    • 12 — Firewalls

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      by D.M. Barach — In the dominant economic models, purpose is an individualistic pursuit of passion and as such a net drain on societal resources. In a harmonised economy, purpose is redefined as the fulfilment of one's optimal function. The individual who is useful—the farmer, the manufacturer, the scientist—is the one who achieves true integration. It is only in serving our designated function that we find true economic and social peace. —Naomi Feld, The Collective Balance: An Introduction to Macro-Societal…
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