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The Poverty Rate Is Missing the Population at Risk

2026-10-07 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 11 min read

The Purpose Test

2026-10-13 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 13 min read

When Honesty Became a Liability

2026-10-07 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 6 min read

Exempt at the Top, Excluded at the Bottom

Social Security runs dry in late 2032. The ledger has room at both ends.

2026-07-03 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 4 min read

Retrieval Adapts. Judgment Atrophies.

Why Gen Alpha breaks the historical pattern and what it means for everything downstream.

2026-05-18 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 7 min read

The Behavioral Ceiling

John Calhoun's mouse utopia doesn't tell us when we run out of room. It tells us when we run out of roles... and the UN's population curve is already drawing it.

2026-05-14 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 7 min read

Gen-X Needs a Job

Not a title. A mandate. There are half a million elected local offices, up to two-fifths of them run unopposed, and the people who can see the failure modes early aren't in the room.

2026-03-04 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 11 min read

Stop Optimizing for Headlines

A systems-level strategy for avoiding generational blowback and why the current direction looks like the opposite

2026-03-01 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 7 min read
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