With Circles Against the Pyramid: Why Circles Are the Shape of Human Flourishing
Introduction: A lawsuit over Amazon workers having to “prove” their right to bereavement leave is the entry point to a larger argument: the problem isn’t bad actors, it’s the pyramid-shaped systems that turn human needs into transactions and people into abstractions. The essay contrasts those hierarchies with Compassionism—the recognition that our lives are structurally entangled, so
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