Comment by elAhmo
5 hours ago
It seems like people in power in the US are competing to make as much damage as possible to systems that brought them so much wealth.
5 hours ago
It seems like people in power in the US are competing to make as much damage as possible to systems that brought them so much wealth.
They are the winners. They want to stay the winners. So they are incentivized make sure that nobody else can climb up to challenge them.
Something is coming so it's all smash and grab.
What something?
Look at the factors in play:
-8 billion human beings
-the continuing health impacts of COVID
-increased frequency and magnitude of destructive weather events
-global weather pattern shifts
-increasingly dysfunctional governments in previously stable nations
-markets dominated by players decoupled from reality
-a stock market bubble of immense proportions
-the end of the post-WWII order
-an interlinked global economy with very little resilience
-an increasing amount of war
I have no idea what shape the world that emerges from all the above is going to be, but I strongly doubt it will be better than it was. The obvious analogs seem to be the Great Depression and the World Wars.
I don't know exactly what will start the dominoes falling, but the current war in Persian Gulf has a lot of potential to do so.
It's almost as if they aren't considering the best interests of the public or the government/economy that they are dismantling.