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Development and Inequality

The Resource Curse: Why Oil Wealth Destroys Nations – And How One Country Escaped

Most oil-rich nations suffer economic decline, corruption, and political instability. Norway did the opposite. Here's the counterintuitive economics of why natural wealth usually destroys nations – and the specific policies that made Norway the exception.

The Architecture of Rot: Part 2: The Walls Are Made of Law

Examines how digital platforms follow a predictable three-stage decay lifecycle from user-centric value creation to shareholder extraction, using Google's internal DOJ memos as the primary evidentiary case.

The Architecture of Rot: How the Digital Economy Was Designed to Decay

A two-part forensic analysis of enshittification — the structural decay of digital platforms — tracing its mechanism, its institutional enablers, and the legal scaffolding that makes perpetual extraction possible.

The Architecture of Rot: Part 1: The Three-Stage Trap

Examines how digital platforms follow a predictable three-stage decay lifecycle from user-centric value creation to shareholder extraction, using Google's internal DOJ memos as the primary evidentiary case.