>8B now…

Dude alleges Marx’s “capitalism!” was somehow responsible for an acceleration of human progress starting in mid 1800s…

Darwin’s Platonist “origin of the species” published iirc 1855 and marked the apex of the Platonist/neoplatonist academic methodology and fomented the creation of the Science degree in formalized academic institutions which is the causal development at that time which has led to the apparent unprecedented acceleration in human material increase …

It didn’t have anything to do with Marx’s “capitalism!” which itself is a Platonist figurative construct among many others that run under that failed disgraced methodology…

In 2022, global population surpassed eight billion people for the first time, marking an eightfold increase since 1800. Prior to the mid-18th century, population growth and living standards remained stagnant for millennia.

However, the advent of capitalism sparked revolutionary… pic.twitter.com/QKA95a7Rry

— Strider Elass (@StriderElass) January 24, 2026

What Davos 2026 Can Tell Us About the World That Is Coming — Curro Jimenez

Predictive (speculative). In the latter half, the author speculates on the technological transition underway from a traditional (analog) monetary system to a digital one — and the implications thereof.

The implementation of central digital currencies, which are a control mechanism, requires the physical extension of hardware and software—which is well underway—as well as concrete territories of applicability. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why we are seeing a return to the “zone of influence” concept.

If this is to happen—which I think is a question of time—there will be fundamental changes in how our societies work. In a financialized society, in which an individual needs money to eat, drink, sleep, and perhaps soon to even breathe, a change in the nature of money is not a mere secondary consequence but a foundational aspect of how the system works.

This type of change, which is akin to a revolution, will displace some elites and will elevate others. Which is why we are seeing some politicians in Davos coming to terms with an inescapable reality: the system they upheld was a fraudulent design to keep some elites in power.

It was none other than Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, who said those words. He, who previously was the governor of the Bank of England, is realizing his class is being pushed aside. The financiers will be replaced by the technologists.

That is the war being fought right now in the United States. Matt Stoller, in his latest newsletter, brilliantly summarized the conflict and offered this as an update of the current status:

I want to highlight an important moment on Capitol Hill last week that could dictate the future of finance in America. On Thursday, the Senate Banking Committee abruptly canceled its meeting, known as a mark-up, to write little-noticed legislation to deregulate the financial system. And the reason is that two of the more powerful forces in D.C.—the banking lobby and the new MAGA-powered crypto world—came into conflict. The result, so far, is a stalemate.

Naked Capitalism

What Davos 2026 Can Tell Us About the World That Is Coming
Curro Jimenez

China Drags The Shipping Industry Into The Digital Age — Godfree Roberts

Saves $40 billion, makes settlement cheap, instantaneous, invisible to the US Treasury. China designed and hosts it, but everybody has a say.

The savings from efficiency no longer flow to the accustomed rentiers. The wheels of international commerce, the foundation of the global economy, also get greased. The new settlement system also opens doors that were formerly closed or difficult to access. This will increase the pace of the great leveling that neocolonialists are attempting to delay in their favor.

Here Comes China
China Drags The Shipping Industry Into The Digital Age
Godfree Roberts

Is there hope for a post neoliberal world? — Bill Mitchell

 I grew up in a society where collective will was at the forefront and it is true to say people looked out for each other. The state – at all levels – had various policy structures in place to provide levels of economic protection for the least advantaged members of society. Having grown up in a poor family, those structures were important in allowing me to stay at school and then go onto to university. It also allowed my friends on the housing commission estate (state housing) who had different skills (not academic) to get apprenticeships and build careers that gave them material security in that way. It wasn’t a perfect period – there was racism, misogyny, and xenophobia – but as mass education spread, my generation left a lot of that behind. I was thinking about that when I read the recent article by Robert Reich in the UK Guardian (December 29, 2026) – Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us – which carried a resonance of some of the things that I have seen emerge in Australia as well as this 4-decade or so neoliberal nightmare reaches some sort of denouement.

William Mitchell - Modern Monetary Theory
Is there hope for a post neoliberal world?
Bill Mitchell, Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle, and co-founder of MMT

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The Minimum Wage Jobs Framework — NeilW

The Minimum Wage Jobs (MWJ) Framework is the most operationally efficient version of a Job Guarantee for the United Kingdom. It achieves the dual objective of a modern stabilisation system: eliminating involuntary unemployment while providing a permanent anchor for inflation....

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The Minimum Wage Jobs Framework

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