Cycles of Change

Walk into any grocery store today and you will feel the sharp pain of prices rising at the checkout counter. A dozen eggs costs more paper money now than it did five years ago. Ground beef costs more. Bread costs more. The receipt at the bottom of the bag carries a number that climbs higher every [...]

David Collum, Cornell Professor and financial critic, provides a sobering study of the 2025 economic landscape. The core idea shows a state of recursive decay where primary systems feed on their own outputs. This process results in a decoupling from reality. This cycle, called recursive slop, [...]