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  "path": "/2026/06/14/revisiting-the-iron-rule/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-15T03:26:46.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Most people do not know of the importance of this rule: all things — genes, ideas, objects, animals, groups — act only in their own self-interest alone. Consider how this liberates you. The poor are working to overthrow the middle classes; of course they do, because they must. Power is zero-sum because choices must be […]",
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