Modern Relationships Are Doomed, Unless...
Ideas to take with you.
- 01
A debt-based money system needs perpetual expansion, which requires human velocity, which is paid for out of the mental bandwidth people would otherwise spend on relationships.
- 02
Cultural forms like filial piety or Western individualism are downstream of what the money makes rational; they persist because the incentives keep rewarding them.
- 03
The gender-line divisions of the present are the endpoint of a blame-deflection instinct scaled up by media whose engagement economics reward it.
- 04
Housing acting as money cannot simultaneously act as shelter, and that trade-off sits directly upstream of birth rates and family formation.
- 05
In an AI-abundant future, the scarce good is not intelligence or company but the confirmed choice of another human to spend their time witnessing yours.
