Short updates, links and quick notes.
Productive, but Not Prosperous: The Paradox Grows
2026-05-19
We are more productive and work less, yet many do not live better. Productivity becomes progress only when it creates real value and reaches people’s pockets.
Privacy: affects you, even if you’re not a criminal
2026-01-10
Surveillance does not need punishment to work. Possibility is enough. Without privacy, freedom quietly cools.
Identity: when you stop being you and become a Profile
2026-01-18
Identity used to answer “is it you?” Now it answers “what will you do?” That shift kills neutrality. When everything is tied to a single profile, freedom isn’t lost through bans—it’s lost through silent conditioning.
Money: When it stops being yours and becomes Permission
2026-01-22
With fully digital money, you don’t pay—you request permission to pay. No need to ban anything. Just don’t authorize it. And if money becomes programmable, it stops being money and turns into a voucher with rules. Whoever sets the rules sets your freedom.
Power: When It No Longer Needs to Impose Itself
2026-03-04
Modern power doesn’t tell you “you can’t”. It tells you “not applicable”. And you self-correct before you try.
Subsidiarity: 1. The idea that dismantles the bloated State
2026-04-06
Subsidiarity is not administrative cooperation, it is a limit on power. The state should intervene only when no one else can do it.
China and Europe: the West’s Strategic Mistake
16/12/25
Europe believes it can redefine economic reality by decree. China simply produces, learns, and wins. Without cheap energy there is no industry; without industry there is no sovereignty. Europe’s problem is not moral—it is strategic.