Progressive Aztec Economics

You ever notice how the government takes your money and then uses it to do shit that would make a crackhead pimp blush with embarrassment? They snatch it right out of your paycheck, call it “taxes,” and then blow it on programs designed by people who couldn’t run a lemonade stand without a $400,000 consultant…

Too Late For Reform

A healthy political order works the way any durable human institution works. It has a purpose that can be named without embarrassment. It has offices with real authority, boundaries with real meaning, and a chain of responsibility that can be followed from decision to consequence without getting lost in fog. It produces outcomes that ordinary…

Not Just NPCs

Everybody calls everybody an NPC now. That’s the great insult of the age. NPC. Like the fellow saying it has uncovered a secret code in the universe. But I don’t know. I’ve met people. They’re not robots. Robots are built for a purpose. That already gives them a leg up. No, people are something stranger….