Owning Your Work in a World That Rents Your Life

This is the quiet truth of institutional work: improvement doesn’t buy freedom. It buys responsibility without ownership. This guest essay by longtime correspondent 0bserver describes the core dynamics of work in America and the global economy: if we don’t own our work, we only “rent” our income and the life it funds. I discuss the process…

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Harvesting Serfdom: The Controlled Demolition of Food Independence

Asystemic ‘Great Dispossession’ is being beta-tested in India. It is a playbook for the end of food sovereignty, driven by the debris of the Bretton Woods system and the insatiable need for ‘market confidence’. India—the World Bank’s largest-ever borrower—is being forced to swap its indigenous agrarian economy for a model that serves credit-rating agencies and…

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Germans can now buy bitcoin, ether, solana products directly from their ING accounts

These crypto products receive the same German tax treatment as directly held bitcoin. What to know: ING Deutschland, Germany’s largest retail bank, now lets customers buy crypto exchange-traded products tracking bitcoin, ether and solana directly through its ING-DiBa Direct Depot securities accounts. The crypto-backed products, issued by firms such as 21Shares, Bitwise and VanEck, are…

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