The Best of ❤️ Umair
5 most popular ❤️ Umair articles, as voted by our community.
Founder, http://eand.co. I like disco and the sunlight can kill me, but I repeat myself. Author: The New Capitalist Manifesto, Betterness from @HarvardBiz
❤️ Umair on Society
The Message This Decade Is Trying to Send Us
What’s Missing From Our World and Age, and Where it Comes From
❤️ Umair on USA
Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse
The Strange New Pathologies of the World’s First Rich Failed State
Half of Americans Are Effectively Poor Now. What The?
America’s Collapsing Because it’s the World’s First Poor Rich Country
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We Don’t Know How to Warn You Any Harder. America is Dying.
We Survivors of Authoritarianism Have a Message America Needs to Hear: This is Exactly How it Happens, and It’s Happening Here.
A Conversation About Civilizational Collapse
This Is How Civilizations Collapse, And Why Ours Feels Like It’s Beginning To
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