Consumer options have increased by roughly 100 million fold compared to pre-industrial societies, dwarfing the 400-fold increase in wealth, yet people keep reporting they want even more choice.
More than half of Americans have used buy now, pay later services, and 59% of those users are Gen Z.
Galloway was the second-least talented person on a 31-person UCLA crew team, yet still parlayed the experience into a job at Morgan Stanley.
At peak times, up to 7,000 people visit St John's Co-Cathedral in a single day, managed in groups of 25. Yet only 20% of them are Maltese. Tonio Mallia sees this as both an opportunity and a challenge — a national treasure that too many locals take for granted.
2.1 children per couple is the replacement rate for a stable population. Like clean air or clean water, it's a commons — but nothing tried across 200 policy experiments in any country has permanently raised birth rates. Capitalism's focus on financial achievement over community and child rearing is making the human species incompatible with itself.
Galloway worked 14-hour days when his kids were babies, missed physical growth milestones, and has no regrets — but only because he had explicit partner alignment on the trade-off. There is no balance. There are only conscious choices.
A crossing guard named Christine makes thousands of dollars a month printing and mailing her daily musings. Quirky, analog media with low production value is capturing a premium audience precisely because it cuts through modern digital noise.
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