Essays & Reflections
Reflections
Companion essays by Chastity Murphy connecting each episode to broader questions about economic life.
privacy surveillance
What Your Transaction Data Reveals
The surveillance economy hiding in plain sight
Your payment history is a diary you never agreed to write. The question is who gets to read it.
April 22, 2026 · 8 min readRead →
wealth
The Quiet Politics of Credit
How lending decisions became a site of structural inequality
Credit is not a neutral technology. It's a mechanism for distributing risk — and historically, that distribution has followed the lines of race and class.
March 10, 2026 · 9 min readRead →