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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
Long On Exclusion: How Investors, Institutions, and the State Keep the Margin Open
From 1493 papal decrees to 2025 AI eviction pilots, and the single profit logic that sustains them.
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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
My Feminism Is Not Soft
It’s structural, intentional, and systemic.
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Kanav Jain
Flexible Reciprocity: Why Fairness Isn’t 50/50
You text “Dinner?” at six and only see the reply when you’re elbow-deep in dishes.
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Kanav Jain
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American Culture is Stored in the Tax Code
Ask someone outside the US to describe American life, and they might mention sprawling homes, last-minute December donations, business trips that double…
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Kanav Jain
The American Ergonomic Ideal
American power has long been driven by what I call an “ergonomic ideal”: squeezing every bit of extraction out of a system while disguising or…
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Kanav Jain
Who Gets to Tell the Story?
Why Denial Is the Core of Structural Power
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Kanav Jain
It Really Does Take Two
Power’s greatest conquest isn’t crushing lone rebels or dispersing crowds—it’s sneaking into the everyday interpersonal bonds we rely on.
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Kanav Jain
Perverse Stability vs. Authentic Peace
We’ve grown so accustomed to equating silence with peace that we overlook the heavy toll it exacts.
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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
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