The Birth of Cakeconomics Whenever I order a piece of cake at a restaurant, I always wonder how many more pieces of cake there are back in the kitchen. Not because I’m greedy but because I’m fascinated by how, from a logistics point of view, the restaurant manages to achieve that perfect goldilocks balance between … Continue reading The Birth of Cakeconomics
(continued) ...For the teenagers, everything outside of the city was nothing but a cheap resource to be exploited, and their arrogance grew day by day as they descended into a spiral of addiction and mental illness, often exacerbated by the city itself. Instead of abandoning their concrete fortress and returning to the village, they would … Continue reading Psychonomic Civilisations
Every slave master miscalculates the physical breaking point of their slaves, assuming that they will have an infinite tolerance for abuse. In an equally abusive necroeconomy, our biological limits are being exceeded by a system which tries to get as much out of us as it can. But there are physical thresholds. When these are … Continue reading Revolting in the Body and Mind
As filler humans, we are entering a new slavery situation where our master is not even human. We can’t see them because they don’t have a face, and we can’t attack them because they are virtually everywhere. For a species who invented the concept of personal ownership, it was very ironic yet at the same … Continue reading Human Pets of the Consumaverse
A successful business is one which can create more of itself, regardless of cost to humans or the planet. Unless it has aggressive plans to expand, a business today should have little reason to exist. This dogma of expansion now pervades all economic activity: businesses must collaborate with the Unhappiness Machine of marketing, religion, the … Continue reading When Profit Grows a Brain: the rise of sentient necrocapitalism
It is ironic but not at all surprising that, for a civilisation claiming to have taken care of its most basic needs a very long time ago, its demise will come down to the one, most basic need common to all organisms: food. Civilisations may survive without technology or organised society, but they cannot … Continue reading Food, Life and Sanity: the Triple Disappearing Act
It is a river like no other. Traversing the Earth in a straight line, it has no time for twists and turns, no desire to smell the roses along the way. It only cares about transporting its sad, silent load: not fish, not humans, not even water. It is a river of electronics, clothing and every other gadget … Continue reading The Suez Canal
George Tsakraklides 