Archive
Structural analyses ordered chronologically. Each piece carries one structural finding — not a narrative conclusion, not a moral verdict. Filter by domain or failure mode.
February 2026
Participation scaling faster than ownership for forty years. Displacement makes the gap visible — it did not create it.
Ownership velocity in German industrial supply chains had been declining since 2008. Energy dependency was the precipitating event, not the structural cause.
When the cost of reaching a consumer exceeds the margin on the product, the intermediary has captured the system. The platform is not a neutral channel — it is a toll architecture.
Turnout declining from 72% to 58% over three cycles. Three structurally consistent failure modes; evidence does not support naming one as dominant.
The immune system deploys participation resources without a mechanism to clear the ownership condition that would allow it to stand down. Correct behaviour in a misaligned structural architecture.
January 2026
Right-to-Buy ended without replacement conversion mechanism in 1988. The timing gap opened then. Two decades of compounding preceded the visible crisis.
Buybacks are mechanically equivalent to accelerated dormant ownership decay applied exclusively to the non-insider fraction. The design is the failure mode.
Participation-ownership gap, sovereign override of formation incentives, and moral free-riding on demographic capital are each consistent with observable data.
Revenue share reduced from 30% to 8% with intent publicly stated. Sovereign override is the same failure mode regardless of whether the reader is sympathetic to the government executing it.
December 2025
Platform labour is participation without ownership accrual by structural design. The contract is not ambiguous — it is architecturally explicit about what it withholds.
The reward system accrues participation signal faster than it can establish ownership stakes. The feedback loop is not chemically hijacked — it is structurally misaligned at the architectural level.