FL#16. Time

Everything you use today — your phone, your food, your hospital, your heating — runs on fossil fuels. Every single bit of it. This episode makes the case that the Industrial Revolution was never really about industry. It was about extraction. Coal, oil, gas, and the minerals beneath the ground buil…

You enjoy your weekend. You have rights at work. Your kids go to school instead of a factory floor. None of that was inevitable. All of it was fought for. And the intellectual ammunition behind almost every one of those fights traces back to one difficult, brilliant, frequently broke German philoso…

Capitalism is the story every modern economy tells about itself. But is anyone actually living it? From prehistoric obsidian traders to trillion-dollar bailouts, this episode traces the real history of capitalism — the version Adam Smith theorised, the version Karl Marx feared, and the version gove…

Every civilisation that ever collapsed thought it was permanent. The Romans didn't think Rome would fall. The Byzantines were debating theology while cannons were being built outside their walls. The Soviets woke up one morning and the system just wasn't there anymore. And the Syrians who had jobs,…