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Quote: "My decision to retire was not a sudden one. I am coming to the end of a four-year retirement contract that I signed in the fall of 2021. That year I decided I no longer wanted to teach at Harvard."

This list mixes rights, outcomes, and social conditions and then calls the result “freedom.”

That isn’t liberation properly defined: it’s a category error that quietly turns freedom into managed dependency.

This is classic Marxian framing: collapse complex human disagreements into a single class narrative, name an unseen enemy, and call it “awakening.”

It explains everything - and therefore explains nothing.

Monetary utopianism denies trade-offs.

And budgets are moral hierarchies.

Europe expanded welfare, neglected defense and innovation, and outsourced both to the U.S.

That model is now failing.

An alleged conflict with a larger-than-life bully is a child's story of personal heroism.

Today, many adults engage in it and many more actually take them seriously.

Productivity gains don’t automatically belong to wages alone. They reflect capital, technology, globalization, and risk - not just labor hours.

Union decline is one variable among many, not a master explanation.

Treating complex economic shifts as class morality is ideology, not analysis.

Billionaires don’t receive most of the wealth they generate; they hold a paper share in enterprises that fund payrolls, suppliers & innovation.

The top 1% pay 40% of all federal income taxes. The top 10% pays about 70%.

So the system is rigged in more ways than one.