Systems Thinking

Exploring the 1789 transition from feudal rights to inalienable property.

Analyzing the pre-modern social order and the myth of functional estates.

A deep dive into the transition from meritocratic work to inherited wealth as the dominant economic force.

Examining how shifts in progressive taxation and global tax competition accelerated wealth gaps since the 1970s.

Analyzing the capital-income ratio (\(\beta\)) and how low growth resurrects the 19th-century rentier class.

An exploration of AI's role in design, its strengths, limitations, and the importance of human judgment.

An investigation into the mathematical and systemic drivers of global wealth concentration.

Exploring the central divergence between capital returns and economic growth as the primary engine of inequality.

Exploring the inconvenient truths of the circular economy, from thermodynamic limits to systemic barriers, and how to build a more realistic and just system.

This series traces how human activities have altered the planet's systems, and whether we can still choose to become its steward.