Min Jinseong

The Regenerative Feedback Loop in Attention Capitalism: How the Restoration Industry Subsidizes Big Tech's Sustainability and Enables Double Monetization

This paper presents a novel structural model of modern attention capitalism, challenging thetraditional binary framework that views algorithmic media platforms and cognitive restorationservices as opposing forces. Instead, we propose the Regenerative Feedback Loop Hypothesis,whic...

Self-Archiving as Pathological Externalization and High-Baseline Maintenance: Catalysts for C-PTSD Recovery and Agency Rebuilding

Conventional therapeutic interventions for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) frequentlyemphasize emotional soothing and the recognition of low-threshold "small wins," such as basic domestictasks. However, this study argues that such approaches often fail individuals...

Algorithmic Domestication and Existential Outsourcing: The Atrophy of Intention and the Emergence of Neo-Feudal Sovereignty

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) rapidly surpasses human capabilities in cognitive execution, technicalsynthesis, and strategic planning, contemporary academic discourse remains largely preoccupied witheconomic displacement, workforce automation, and algorithmic alignment. This pa...

Outliers as Leading Variable Generators: How Anomalous Data Propels Systemic Expansion in Predictive Architectures

In classical statistics and early machine learning paradigms, an outlier is conventionally treated as noisy,erratic data to be trimmed or isolated to preserve the integrity of Gaussian models. However, incontemporary hyper-scale predictive architectures, this framework is obsolet...

The Hedonic Inflation Gap: Measuring the True Purchasing Power Erosion of Middle-Income Portfolios Beyond Headline CPI

Standard portfolio theory evaluates real asset returns by deflating nominal yields using officialgovernment price indices, primarily the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This paper demonstrates thatthis conventional framework relies on a fundamental statistical mismatch for middle-inc...

The Individual Capital Repatriation Tax (ICRT) Framework: Leveraging Domestic Brokerages to Channel Global Equity Gains into National Resilience

For emerging and middle-power market economies, household capital flight toward foreign equities presents a profoundpolicy dilemma: while global portfolio diversification enhances household wealth, capital outflows strain foreign exchange(FX) reserves and weaken domestic equity v...

The Gastronomy of Scarcity: Economic Inversion, Fermentation Aesthetics, and the Paradigm Shift from Cucina Povera to Global Haute Cuisine

Throughout culinary history, a compelling economic paradox persists: dishes originally developedunder extreme resource scarcity, poverty, and survival constraints—collectively conceptualized asCucina Povera—frequently evolve into high-margin luxury items in global fine dining. Th...

The Epistemological Ceiling of Authoritarian Innovation: Engineering Mobilization versus Ecological Autonomy in Tech-Polemics

The rapid technological ascent of state-capitalist regimes—most prominently China—has ignited afundamental debate in international political economy: does technological innovation necessitate liberaldemocracy and open discourse, or can centralized authoritarian states out-scale m...

The Automation Paradox: How AI Velocity Triggers Compulsive Task Expansion and Executive Overload in Solitary Projects

The rapid integration of Generative AI into solo workflows is widely presumed to liberate humancognitive capacity and reduce occupational fatigue. However, in high-functioning operators withunderlying trauma-adapted neural profiles, AI acceleration frequently induces the Automati...

Neoliberal Double Extraction and Pseudo-Agency: A Cognitive Bandwidth Model of Working-Class Existential Avoidance

This working paper introduces an interdisciplinary framework combining cognitive ergonomics,behavioral economics, and existential philosophy to explain the persistent cognitive exhaustion and existential passivity of the modern working class. We challenge the traditional narrativ...

The Pedagogy of Clearing (Negative Space): Cultivating Unhurried Presence and Non-Performative Communication

Modern communication theories and educational paradigms are built almost entirely onaccumulation: expanding vocabulary, refining persuasive rhetoric, and eliminatingconversational pauses. Consequently, public and interpersonal discourse has devolved intohigh-density performative...

The Masstige of Movement: How Mass Endurance Events Democratize Status Signaling in the Era of Pharmaceutical Weight Loss

The global commercialization of GLP-1 receptor agonists (e.g., semaglutide, tirzepatide) has fundamentallyaltered the socio-economic value of body composition. Historically, achieving a lean physique served as apotent status symbol, signaling personal discipline, temporal freedom...

The Automation Paradox: How AI Velocity Triggers Compulsive Task Expansion and Executive Overload in Solitary Projects

The rapid integration of Generative AI into solo workflows is widely presumed to liberate humancognitive capacity and reduce occupational fatigue. However, in high-functioning operators withunderlying trauma-adapted neural profiles, AI acceleration frequently induces the Automati...

The Law of Friction Conservation: How Radical Transparency Shifts Organizational Distress from Political Friction to Performance Anxiety

Modern organizational literature heavily praises the elimination of internal politics through radicaltransparency, decentralization, and extreme meritocracy. Exemplified by tech sector pioneers, theseoperational frameworks aim to dismantle approval hierarchies, bureaucratic inert...

Beyond Willpower Depletion: How Task Architecture and Ownership Feedback Drive Sustainable Hyper-Execution

The dominant paradigm in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics, particularly Ego DepletionTheory, posits that human willpower and executive control are finite resources that rapidly degrade undersustained cognitive effort. Standard literature suggests that cognitive effic...

Reframing Analog Scarcity: Leveraging Parental Tacit Knowledge into Digital Intellectual Property for Asymmetry in Modern Wealth Creation

In contemporary economic discourse, the offspring of working-class or economically modest families areconventionally viewed as starting from a position of structural disadvantage. Existing literature onintergenerational mobility predominantly focuses on two pathways for the digit...

The Individual Capital Repatriation Tax (ICRT) Framework: Leveraging Domestic Brokerages to Channel Global Equity Gains into National Resilience

For emerging and middle-power market economies, household capital flight toward foreign equities presents a profoundpolicy dilemma: while global portfolio diversification enhances household wealth, capital outflows strain foreign exchange(FX) reserves and weaken domestic equity v...

Post-CPTSD Metacognitive Architecture: A Framework for Sustainable High- Performance Systems in Extreme-Focus Survivors

Traditional clinical paradigms view Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) and severeburnout primarily through a pathological lens—as debilitating psychological deficits requiring therapeutic mitigation. However, this paper proposes an alternative, system-oriented model:...

The Subsea Climate Paradox: Thermal Pollution, Electromagnetic Disruption, and Grid Weaponization in Transoceanic HVDC Infrastructure

As global decarbonization mandates accelerate alongside the unprecedented power demands of artificialintelligence (AI) compute infrastructure, transoceanic High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) subsea power gridsare increasingly advocated as a solution to regional energy intermitten...

Expanding Horizons as Natural Quantum Erasers: Information Loss and Decoherence Across Cosmological Metric Expansion

The accelerating expansion of the universe, described by the Friedmann–Lemaˆıtre–Robertson– Walker (FLRW) metric, establishes a cosmological event horizon beyond which emitted pho-tons recede at effective velocities exceeding the speed of light (c). While general relativity treat...