Poverty & Capital

I spend a lot of time thinking about economic life, how people experience it, and why the usual vocabulary for talking about it falls short. These essays try to build clearer frameworks for understanding poverty, wealth, and the structures between them. The series is still early.

• What Is Wealth
  09 Apr 2026 — A thought experiment about a button that increases all real goods proportionally. What it reveals about wealth, growth, and who the mechanism reaches.
• A Schema for Thinking About Economic Life
  18 Mar 2026 — A working vocabulary for economic life—nine categories from misery to ultra-wealth, and the two structural thresholds that define them.