Outsourced Agency: Why We Must Reclaim Responsibility for What Matters
There is a comfortable habit we have grown accustomed to across generations: the belief that the truly essential and existential dimensions of our coexistence are best managed by higher authorities. We delegate key pillars of our daily lives to states, central banks, corporations, and expert committees. We rarely do so with ill intent, but rather out of convenience, driven by the hope that someone else will solve the difficult problems for us.
This collective blind spot becomes particularly apparent when it comes to money.