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When wrong becomes right
How small acts of justified wrongdoing reveal a much larger collapse in how we think about ethics.
May 12
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What happens when young people stop believing in their financial future?
Hanna Horvath joins Collapse Life to unpack the deeper story behind money trauma, collapsing trust, and the emotional consequences of life in an…
May 9
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'Money trauma': slippery slope to a cashless society?
A look at what might happen when the language of healing begins to overlap with the language of policy.
May 7
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Notes from the edge of civilization: May 3, 2026
BoJo says birth rate decline is a blessing; AI-first fighting force; markets go parabolic while Grandich goes viral; Gen Z heads to church.
May 3
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A deeper look at what lies behind 'Universal High Income'
As Courtenay Turner explains, beneath the language of automated abundance lies a very different kind of structure — one that raises some very hard…
May 2
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Prediction markets have democratized insider trading
Once the purview of pinstriped millionaires trading merger tips over steak dinners, it's now possible for anyone with a cellphone to cash out in hours…
Apr 30
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Artificial food and the attempt to redesign creation
The push to replace natural agriculture with engineered proteins reflects a deeper belief that life itself can be engineered.
Apr 23
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Return of the (s)mack
Are we being ritually humiliated again?
Apr 21
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China is winning wars and it's not even fighting
Influencers, algorithms, and Western disillusionment are reshaping the battlefield.
Apr 16
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Notes from the edge of civilization: April 12, 2026
Everyone loves the bad guy; virtue signaling becomes virtue spending; the dominoes are starting to fall.
Apr 12
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Has the AI transition met its first real resistance?
As the parasite class maps the future of work, workers themselves are quietly refusing to cooperate.
Apr 9
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Predictive programming: when fiction stops being fiction
On this week's Collapse Life podcast, a discussion about how the clues are everywhere, if you choose to notice them.
Apr 4
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