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Las Piedras No Mienten

Twelve thousand years of forced-cooperation systems that promised freedom and delivered collapse. Ends with the Ludist Manifesto and its unsolved problems.

$189 MXN / $9.99 USD

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The Generosity in the Doorway

Fourteen diagnostic essays on universal basic income, AI-driven layoffs, Marienthal 1933, Cybersyn and Davos. Diagnoses UBI; does not defend it.

$4.99 USD / $89 MXN

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Stone Paper I: Göbekli Tepe

When humans built temples before houses. Twelve thousand years ago in southern Anatolia, hunter-gatherers coordinated for generations to build something that did not feed them.

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