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What this is and where to begin
I'm a systems thinker with 30 years in tech (MITRE-adjacent, MySQL/Sun, Red Hat, HP, Amazon, others). Autistic. LDS-raised. I have a rule-detection reflex and no patience for covert authority.
This publication is structural analysis of institutional failure. I trace incentives, not intentions. I name names. I do not hedge for social comfort.
If you want to know whether this is for you, pick one:
Why institutions rot: We Are Dying of the Same Thing That Killed the Soviets
How belief systems capture you: The Machinery of Belief
How power actually operates: Discretion Is the Weapon
Why mercenaries are safer than believers: The Mercenary Is the Safer Bet
Who sold you your disillusionment: Disillusionment Is Also a Product
My archive goes back to 1999, and USENET and email back to 1985. The institutional analysis sharpened around 2020. Read forward or backward; the method is the same.
You cite similarities among unresponsive economic operations between capitalist and communist regimes..
Rather more important are the subtle but powerful differences.
Archaic practices and misdirected forces begin to harm businesses in America.
That stimulates free market entrepreneurs to exploit opportunities.
Stupid limits on taxi medallions create fake scarcity. Uber, Lyft et sim. arise before the ink is dry.
That effect is so powerful that other stupidities never get off the ground. Mamdani cannot even get started on his follies, for the instant premonitions of possible reactions.
Yes. the heavy hand of government is regrettable. But today, the opportunists begin gnawing on the corpse-in-process while it is still dying.