Comment by echelon

19 days ago

> And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

Just as true with economic cycles and so many other things.

Maybe the common person isn’t built to boom/bust for 7 years at a time for the good of the shareholder,

maybe we just want to be somewhat okay the whole time.