So, look I should not be writing about this because, boy, I sure like wealth for its general propensity to promote aesthetics in the world, but: When a report came out this summer on how ultra wealthy don’t pay taxes because they don’t earn money like you and me, but…

Significance of NFTs beyond speculation. Convergence of social and financial capital on the internet of value. — Growing up in the 90s eastern Europe, I never had a problem understanding why someone would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a 631px-sized monkey image. In the fast transforming post-communist countries of the eastern bloc, money culture was pervasive, and sporting a brand or two was a sign…

Can our society depraved of cultural coherence find a style identity? Searching for a signal of Zeitgeist. — You could have a view that for the most part of human history culture was a centralized phenomenon, and that view would mostly be right. From the popes and church masters of the baroque Europe to film studios of the 1950s Hollywood, few men and women (but mostly men) owned…

Not the answer you want. — The annoying fact that achieving economic wellbeing in a capitalist society is by no means commensurate to happiness, and that it may in fact kill our little souls is a subject that has been studied since the very time that capitalism began transforming our world. Durkheim, the author of Le…

Homage to Ayn Rand. — Lament. From a long withdrawn observation of other people, you’ve become inclined to admit that it is possible that many of them enjoy, no live for, bodily experiences. How wonderfully useful, you hurry to admit. From the moment we open our eyes, we belong. Embedded in fuzzy structures of emotional, social…