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Beyond Deservingness
There’s a peculiar contradiction at the heart of modern public policy: Propose universal provision—unconditional meals, healthcare, housing, or cash—and…
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Kanav Jain
Racism as a Business Model
How Denial Became a Revenue Stream—and What It Will Take to Break the Machine
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Kanav Jain
Universality Disincentivizes Surveillance
In health insurance, credit, and employment, private actors mine ZIP codes, prescription histories, résumé gaps, and spending habits to assign risk and…
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Kanav Jain
Edge-Case Medicine: How Profit Logic Treats Life as Waste
Capitalism doesn’t just cut corners—it cuts people out.
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Kanav Jain
What We Built, and Why We Let Go
In August 2024, we decided to end Andwise, with no formal press release, no dramatic pivot tweets—just a resolve to shut it down before becoming…
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Kanav Jain
Emergent Universality vs Top-Down Healthcare
While conventional thinking holds that only big bureaucracies can deliver universal healthcare, anarchist practices illustrate a very different path…
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Kanav Jain
Some pain will, of course, be there.
You arrive at the hospital from the airport, taking MARTA straight to Northside.
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Kanav Jain
"Why Can’t They Just Die Already?"
Why Waiting for Boomers to Disappear Won’t Save Us
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Kanav Jain
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I Am Expensive and So Are You
Are You Afraid of Being Too Big An Ask?
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Kanav Jain
Nobody is Too Expensive
Once you label entire groups “too expensive,” friction-based eugenics is always just one step away
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Kanav Jain
Actuarial Medicine & Hidden Exclusion
How AI Helps Hospitals Quietly Filter Out Complex Patients and Call It “Efficiency”
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Kanav Jain
Abundance Is Not a Future, It Is a Forbidden Present
Gatekeeping is what blocks care, not scarcity.
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Kanav Jain
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