Sometime in the latter half of the twentieth century, something happened that had never happened before in the long arc of human history. Across the wealthiest, most educated, most technologically advanced societies on earth, people began – collectively, voluntarily, and with apparent finality – to stop replacing themselves. This was not the result of plague, famine, or war. It was not imposed by governments or forced by circumstance. It emerged, quietly and persistently, from the choices of hundreds of …read more
By Dhruv Manoj
Capitalism, in some form or another, has been regarded as the de facto option for the default state of any nation’s economy since the end of the cold war, which saw the dissolution of the only major command economy that disappeared with the fall of the USSR. In the modern age, any nation that wishes to reap the unequivocal benefits of globalization enabled by the exchange of markets across sovereign states inevitably embraces some form of the capitalist economy. Given the deep permeation of late-stage capitalist …read more
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