Every old path. One better way.
For readers who want the intellectual contest, not just the banner. The system files keep each rival short, scannable, and honest.
The Welfare State
The best documented floor. Secure, but dependent on political will.
Democratic Socialism
Correct moral concern, weaker ownership path.
Keynesianism
Stabilizes crises, but does not reconnect floor to top.
Capitalism
Productive engine. Distribution failure when extraction dominates.
Mercantilism
National strength often bought by individual subordination.
Supply-Side Economics
Promised trickle-down. Wallet test failed.
Communism
Named exploitation and answered with coercion.
Financialized Capitalism
The current drain: debt, intermediation, extraction.
Austrian / Hayek
Strong theory of liberty; weak answer for labor asymmetry.
Neoreaction / Yarvin
Identifies capture, then formalizes capture.
Where Affordism stands
Affordism scores 22.5 projected, not proven. The half-points are not hedges; they are the invitation to run the Wallet Test.
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