Analysis of economic systems, incentives, and outcomes as expressions of human behavior over time.
Capitalism is not failing because it is inefficient. It is succeeding at efficiently exploiting human irrationality. What if much of what we “want” was never discovered by markets, but carefully manufactured by them?
Dependency is not a moral failing—it is an economic condition shaped by incentives. When systems reward reliance instead of responsibility, productivity erodes, agency diminishes, and prosperity becomes unsustainable.
Venezuela’s collapse is often framed as a moral tragedy or a warning about foreign involvement. In reality, it is an economic case study in how a wealthy nation was dismantled—and how it could be rebuilt.
Economic systems do not fail because people lack good intentions, they fail because of false assumptions about human behavior. This essay explores why systems that align incentives with real human nature endure.
