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Conrad Bastable

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Conrad Bastable spent time building products to serve the PC-building gaming market. Previously, he worked for Dropbox on their Strategic Finance team, JP Morgan in TMT Investment Banking, a Boston real-estate startup, and American Industrial Partners. Conrad graduated from MIT in 2013 and from Phil

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2025 3

  1. April 3, 2025
  2. Essays
  3. Essays | Conrad Bastable

2024 2

  1. Monetization & Monopolies: How The Internet You Loved Died | Conrad Bastable
  2. Escalation Theory: Compliance, Violence, and Overachievement In Society | Conrad Bastable

2023 1

  1. Inside My First Bank Run: Zombie Banks and Magic Money | Conrad Bastable

2022 4

  1. Japan’s Housing Crisis: What The YIMBYs Don’t Understand | Conrad Bastable
  2. Book Review: Discourses on Livy, Part II | Conrad Bastable
  3. Book Review: Discourses on Livy, Part I | Conrad Bastable
  4. American Zaibatsu: Macroeconomics for Tech Employees | Conrad Bastable

2021 2

  1. Video Games & Professional Society: What Older Generations Don’t Understand About Gaming | Conrad Bastable
  2. Elite Underproduction: Why We Can’t Solve Hard Problems Anymore | Conrad Bastable

2020 4

  1. Ouroboros Theory: Describing The Nature of Right vs. Left | Conrad Bastable
  2. Unequal Growth: The Zero-Sum Games You Don’t See | Conrad Bastable
  3. China’s Trillion-Dollar Tech War: When To Defend A Monopoly | Conrad Bastable
  4. The Germany Shock: The Largest Economy Nobody Understands | Conrad Bastable

2019 11

  1. Steelmanning Free Speech: An Argument for Unfettered Content | Conrad Bastable
  2. Steelmanning Censorship: An Argument for the Removal of Content | Conrad Bastable
  3. The Full Stack of Society: Can You Make A Whole Society Wealthier? [RECAPS ONLY] | Conrad Bastable
  4. The Full Stack of Society: Can You Make A Whole Society Wealthier? [Full Version] | Conrad Bastable
  5. The Full Stack of Society: Can You Make A Whole Society Wealthier? | Conrad Bastable
  6. Mercantilism: A New Path To Wealth Through Imperfect Competition | Conrad Bastable
  7. Industrialism: Mercantilism, But With Production Brought In-House | Conrad Bastable
  8. Globalism: Export Industrialism Itself & Share In The Wealth | Conrad Bastable
  9. Financialism: You Don’t Need Surpluses If You Can Trade With The Future | Conrad Bastable
  10. So Can You Make A Whole Society Wealthier? | Conrad Bastable
  11. The Panopticon Prism: All Facts Serve A Narrative | Conrad Bastable

2018 3

  1. The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands | Conrad Bastable
  2. Moloch is Our God: AI, Mankind, and Moloch Walk Into A Bar — Only Two May Leave | Conrad Bastable
  3. The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth | Conrad Bastable

Undated 14

  1. Julien Clarke | Conrad Bastable
  2. Dana Buckley | Conrad Bastable
  3. Sir James Condi | Conrad Bastable
  4. Heinrich Harrison | Conrad Bastable
  5. Emily London | Conrad Bastable
  6. Jonathan Miller | Conrad Bastable
  7. Charlotte Stowe | Conrad Bastable
  8. Cid Tolkien | Conrad Bastable
  9. Candice Whitman | Conrad Bastable
  10. Essay Archive | Conrad Bastable
  11. Work with me | Conrad Bastable
  12. things people say | Conrad Bastable
  13. Welcome | Conrad Bastable
  14. Read Me | Conrad Bastable