Glints & Glimmers
Everything Must Go
The Total Commodification of Human Life
It is a supply-chain analysis of the modern human condition, followed by a practical argument for recovering agency within it.
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The argument
You do not participate in the economy; you are the economy — nearly every measurable human trait has been rendered, standardized, separated, and exchanged. Ownership is one route to leverage and not the only one; refusal is the variable that separates an acceptable exchange from an exploitative one, tested by whether a person could decline and still eat. Part I maps the mechanics of that market, Part II hands over the survival playbook, and Part III names the conditions — like decommodification — that no individual instrument reaches.
What's inside
★ The honest section
What the Book Claims as Its Own
The book audits its own naming discipline: twenty-seven named devices across twenty-two chapters is more than a framework needs, and only six of them get used again after the chapter that coined them. As it puts it, “a reader who suspects the naming is doing more work for the author than for them is reading the count correctly.”
Who it's for
This is for you if
- You're freelancing, selling time, and want to stop.
- You're ground down and not sure you want any of this.
- You're already holding an asset or a reserve and want to protect the position.
This isn't for you if
- You want legal, tax, medical, or financial advice — the book states plainly it is none of those.
- Your runway is under a month and you haven't yet run the three exercises Appendix A puts first.
An excerpt
“The alarm goes at six forty. Before your eyes are properly open, the watch on your wrist has finished scoring last night and filed the result next to eleven months of the same. You reach past it for the phone. In the time it takes the first post to arrive, an auction has run and closed: a device in a city, a person with a history of pausing on certain things, offered to bidders whose names you will never see. You have not bought anything. You have not agreed to anything yet today. Somebody has been paid.”
Introduction: The Final Market
If this was worth reading this far
You've read the argument, the structure, and the part Everything Must Go admits about itself. This list will tell you if it ever becomes something you can hold.
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