Let's let RiverGPT explain it (curated by me): A Social Market Economy integrated with a Negative Income Tax (NIT) combines the organic efficiency of a free market with structurally embedded social protections. A Social Market Economy A Social Market Economy is an economic system that tries to combine the strengths of a competitive market economy

Could a negative income tax replace the welfare system?

The idea of a negative income tax (NIT) is commonly thought to have originated with economist Milton Friedman, who advocated it in his 1962 book, Capitalism and Freedom. Others, notably the late Joseph Pechman, long-time tax dean of the Brookings Institution, credited the University of Wisconsin’s Robert Lampman with at least simultaneous discovery and with […]

Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, statistics, printed matter, sound recordings, videotapes, and photographs relating to economic theory, economic conditions in the United States, and governmental economic policy. Digitized copies of many of the sound and video recordings in this collection, as well as some of Friedman's writings, are available at…

“Why do reductionist systems fail to address human needs?” Reductionist systems fail because human needs are interconnected and rarely fit neatly into institutional categories. When decisions are made far from the people experiencing a problem, critical information is lost, making top-down systems less responsive, efficient, and effective. Essentially, I would argue that top-down systems are

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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores money, energy, economy, and the environment with world experts and leaders to understand how everything fits together, and where we go from here

It is unbearably painful to live in a totalitarian era and bear witness daily to war and violence at home and abroad, the glorification of centralized wealth, and the defunding of all forms of care for the rest of us.

Maybe for some, there is a quiet desperation at times to be someone else, do something else, to live a life that feels more aligned, more like you—because the truth is not everyone

A different way of meeting what is not yet resolved. You may have noticed how quickly something meaningful can collapse into something consumable. A conversation that felt alive, dimensional, quietly shifting something in you ~ becomes a set of takeaways. A thread becomes a summary. A moment of shared sensing becomes something you can “get through.”

Early signals from a field becoming aware of itself. Across the field of “Transformative Social Systems (TSS),” many of us are working from different lineages, in different contexts, often at the edges of complexity. Our practices are evolving, but the connective tissue between us is still forming. Without places where the field can sense itself in real time, the deeper patterns shaping our work can remain diffuse, difficult to see or feel as a whole.

The truth about digital ID. This is the first in a three-part series about the push towards digitalisation and what it means for Britain in the short term and humanity in the longer. Yes, I would rather be writing about things other than technology. When time permits, I’m researching a book about the positive future which could emerge from where we are now, one that’s exciting, creative and eminently human.

The physics of inflation, the logic of transition, and the policies that might save us. A new preprint by atmospheric physicist Timothy Garrett and mathematician Matheus Grasselli asks a deceptively simple question: will climate change cause inflation? Their answer rewrites the terms of the entire economic debate.

The Great Demonetization: A Signal of What’s Coming. The recent wave of mass demonetizations sweeping across YouTube and X isn’t random. It isn’t about enforcing quality standards or protecting advertisers. It’s a deliberate strategy to clear the playing field for what comes next: a post-human content creation system powered entirely by artificial intelligence. I have watched this unfold for years, and the pattern is unmistakable. Platforms are systematically devaluing human creators to make room for AI avatars that never demand payment, never take sick days, and never push back against censorship.

Cancel culture has found its way to the world of the written word. And just when we thought it was over. This bizarre manifestation of social engineering, bringing back the time-honored tradition of the witch hunt, has found a new target. Writers. Or, more accurately, producers of written content. Don't get me wrong, cancel culture