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A 1967 Database Made Sure Your Record Never Stays Local. A 2003 Supreme Court Ruling Made Sure the Debt Is Never Paid Off. One Industry Opted Out of Both, for Itself.
Three separate decisions, seven decades apart, add up to the same result: reinvention stopped being available to almost everyone in America. A federal database ended distance as an escape. A Supreme Court doctrine ended "I served my time" as an argument. Silicon Valley built a private exception to both -- and Florida shows just how far a democracy can walk back a fix even when 65% of voters demand it.
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Juicero Cost $400 and Lost to a Human Hand. WeWork's Founder Walked Away With $1.7 Billion Anyway -- and Got Funded Again.
Theranos, WeWork, and Juicero collapsed on the same pattern: a claim that didn't survive contact with reality. What actually explains you...
A Hand Reaches for Whatever's Sitting on the Shelf. Economists Just Traced the Same Mechanism Through 21 Billion Facebook Friendships -- and Found It Predicts Who Escapes Poverty.
Nobody has to work to keep people sorted by class, background, or belief. Sorting is what happens automatically whenever exposure is rest...
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