A room of lonely teenagers lost a contest it was never allowed to enter (wilsoniumite.com)
The essay's image: when rent is on the line, you pick the shift over the youth club, the present parent, the visited grandparent. The value is real but spills sideways, so the market prices it at zero and people get coerced into marginal paid work.
The thread split on the cure. UBI plus a land-value tax, said some. Just changing tastes, said others, pointing to Roblox and Discord as the new clubhouse. The ZeroTier founder named the trap: market fundamentalism.
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