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Stoic Failure-Mode vs. Epicurean Fantasy

Stoic Failure-Mode vs. Epicurean Fantasy — Real World Order Real World Order  ·  J.S. Jowett  ·  May 2026 Stoic Failure-Mode — vs. — Epicurean Fantasy Actors and AI: It's Not a Clone War In proposition that the displacement narrative, the efficiency argument, and the economic transition model are leaving something out of the account of work itself — this paper aims to find out what. Jason S. Jowett  ·  realworldorder.blogspot.com  ·  May 2026 Two philosophers walk into a cafĂ©. One orders nothing and endures. The other calculates exactly what he needs, eats it without ceremony, and gets on with the evening. Neither of them is managing the place. An AI is. The Stoic and the Epicurean have been arguing for two and a half thousand years about how a person should relate to their body, their appetites, and the conditions of their working life. Stoic. Endure what you cannot control. Perfor...

Budget Deficit Responce

Operation Fair Share — Resource Super Profits Tax Lobby Plan Lobby Strategy Document — May 2026 Operation Fair Share A campaign to restore the Resource Super Profits Tax — and why this time is different Executive Summary The case in plain numbers Australia sits on some of the world's most valuable mineral and energy deposits. It is heading toward $1 trillion in gross debt. The gap between those two facts is not an accident — it is a policy choice, made and remade over 15 years, to let extraordinary resource profits leave the country largely untaxed while governments borrow to fund hospitals and schools. The 2010 campaign against Kevin Rudd's Resource Super Profits Tax was the pivotal moment. It worked. It set the template. And the magnates who ran it have expressed no remorse — they've grown richer and more brazen. But conditions have fundamentally changed. This document sets out why the campaign can be won this ti...

Revisiting NUS, a conceptual ideal progressing across educational uptake of AI

Why Your Degree is Becoming Obsolete Education & Future of Work Why Your Degree is Becoming Obsolete: 5 Radical Shifts from the New Universal Scale By Jason S. Jowett — Youtube @jasonjowett · Watch the Presentation In this article The High-Stakes Race to Nowhere Takeaway 1: Your Credential is a Snapshot—and That’s the Problem Takeaway 2: The “Disappearing Field” Warning Takeaway 3: Mastery is More Than a Passing Grade Takeaway 4: The Death of the Old Boy’s Club (Gatekeeping) Takeaway 5: Achievement Relative to Starting Position Conclusion: A Living Document for an Uncertain Future 1. The High-Stakes Race to Nowhere Our schools are processing plants for a future that has already expired. For decades, we have treated education as a high-stakes race where the primary objective is to cross the finish line fi...