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A publication by Quy Ma on predictive capitalism, coordination, and the economic systems that run behind daily life
Dec 12, 2025
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Convergence Markets: Every Layer Has an Extinction Event
Why the roles inside every marketplace die, and who inherits the niche when they do.
Jul 8
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The Slave Economy Never Ended. It Just Changed Its Labor Source.
What Rome's slave economy tells us about who should own the one we're building now, and the only version worth building.
Jul 2
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Your Neurodivergent Brain Has a Second Gear. AI Just Made It the Expensive One.
The neurodivergent economy in the age of AI. The skill you already have, and what it's worth now.
Jun 25
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The Eight Load-Bearing Humans Every Civilization Needs
The roles AI can't touch are the ones we stopped producing
Jun 17
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Frameworks Are the Next Gold Rush
Mar 31
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How a 14th-Century Arab Historian Already Predicted the World You're Living In
May 28
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The Eight Load-Bearing Humans Every Civilization Needs
Jun 17
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Your Neurodivergent Brain Has a Second Gear. AI Just Made It the Expensive One.
Jun 25
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The Velocity Problem: Why America’s Fiscal Trap Is a Circulation Failure and How to Fix It
How Financialization Drained the Tax Base and Why Circulation Reform Is the Only Exit
Jun 10
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The Hayek Inversion: How the Best Defense of Free Markets Became the Blueprint for Replacing Them
Friedrich Hayek won the argument against central planning. The world he described is already gone.
Jun 4
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How a 14th-Century Arab Historian Already Predicted the World You're Living In
Ibn Khaldun's Asabiyyah: The Force Behind Every Rise, Fall, and Comeback
May 28
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The Tollbooth Returns
How platforms, states, and empires learned to make you pay the same toll
May 21
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Game Developers Figured Out Inflation. The Fed Never Had To.
What World of Warcraft, EVE Online, and a 1932 Austrian town can teach us about the monetary toolkit central banks never developed.
May 16
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The Algorithm Is the New Commissar
How predictive capitalism built a centralized planning economy without anyone in charge.
May 6
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The Twelve Forms of Capitalism: A Field Guide
Twelve market systems, one pattern: someone always pays.
Apr 29
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Markets, Flow, and the Migration of Friction
The Convenience You Experience Is the Cost Someone Else Absorbs
Apr 23
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The Bread and the Algorithm
How the world’s most frictionless wealth transfer was built by accident
Apr 14
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I write about predictive capitalism: how economic & coordination systems run behind civilizations, algorithms, & daily life.
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