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Why does everything cost more than it should? The Default Option digs into Australian economics — housing, groceries, energy, gas, wages — and asks who actually designed it this way.

No finance-bro takes, no doom. Just working through the systems that decide what you pay, one at a time, and being honest about the parts I don't have an answer for yet.

New long-form every fortnight. Written version at https://substack.com/@thedefaultoption