2026-06-29 at

co-guested : capitalism and socialism

One resolution for the capitalist-socialist dilemma is a formalised caste system. Individuals or corporate entities may access different insurances and opportunities, based on formal registration by caste.

Capitalists may argue that making it opt-in is basically a free market system. But what I am proposing is essentially larger government infrastructure platform, which hosts both people who :

  • 1. want to be boring for life, with limited downside 
  • 2. people who are willing to risk everything

2026-06-28 at

anthropology from 2005 to 2023

I devoted ten to twenty years to studying the lives of poor, and middleclass, non-Muslim Malaysians, but I did not find them less stupid across time. I examined their loves of family, friendship, and food, and their begrudging pursuit of occupations, hobbies, holiness, sophistication, and other social contexts. And while I understood much of what I observed, I did not find them to be more interesting, over time.

There is an overarching concept, in anthropology and philanthropy, that if you spend more time to understand the culture of a stupid person, you can come to an appreciation of them which is more enriching to yourself. I am not sure that I have been successful here. 

Dusk light mechanics are helping serotonin a lot, today. I reflect upon my studies.