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Tag Archives: civilization

Aren’t We All Rentiers?

When we own capital, and then charge people to use it, but don’t give it to them, we become rentiers, to use the economic term invented by David Ricardo

Posted byWilliam SundwickMay 28, 2026Posted inFutureTags:capital, capitalism, civilization, David Graeber, David Ricardo, economic history, intellectual capital, invention, Karl Marx, labor, labor productivity, rentLeave a comment on Aren’t We All Rentiers?

Are We Doomed?

Physics tells us all things are doomed, via entropy — but there’s another way of looking at the universe, depending on your preferred timeline …

Posted byWilliam SundwickSeptember 18, 2025Posted inFutureTags:biodiversity, China, civilization, entropy, expanding universe, liberalism, mortality, Ottoman Empire, planetary collapse, replacement theory, Roman Empire, social change, social entropy, species extinction, tribalismLeave a comment on Are We Doomed?

The World in 2124

Predicting the future — to a time after we are all dead — is not so hard, especially if you don’t have to support any of your projections!

Posted byWilliam SundwickApril 7, 2024Posted inPastTags:anarchism, civilization, climate change, cooperativeness, geopolitics, history, ideology, international trade, Karl Marx, libertarian socialism, Nathan Robinson, Peter Kropotkin, religion, scientific research, technology3 Comments on The World in 2124

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