Inequality

Classification: Late-Stage Economic Foma · Technological · Institutional · Hypernormalised Status: Privately acknowledged · Publicly deferred · Structurally preserved I. The Core Foma The belief: Increased productivity leads to broadly shared prosperity. This belief was once conditionally true. It is now structurally false. The system continues to speak as if it remains valid. II. What Has Changed (Quietly Understood) AI dramatically increases productivity. This is not disputed. What is rarely stated plainly is that productivity gains now flow primarily to: ...

Canada is unraveling, but not in the noisy pantomime style of Britain. Its fragility is quieter, bureaucratic, and brittle. For decades, the country held together by scaffolding rather than stone — institutions, slogans, and borrowed myths that looked solid but were never deeply believed. The Rise and Fall of the Canadian Foma 1. The Birth of the Story (1867–1945) Confederation stitched together east and west under Britain’s umbrella. The founding foma was simple: Canada is a nation, bilingual, polite, and different from America. The glue was empire, church, and the frontier myth. ...