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relative 'wealth disparities' don't mean anything, the fundamental potency of people and their organized efforts is what matters
society in 2001 was still more potent than society in 2025; things that could be done then that cannot be done by people now
'cost prohibition' is just another way of saying weakness, decline of capital
human capital especially
and of course, not only are there more 'people' who are worth less - or worse than worth nothing - the worthless underlords who inherited empire from their old masters and are overseeing its decline make sure to interfere in anyone who is not worthless too, to make sure they can never do anything worthwhile that would have potent results
think about those people talking about old route 66, crumbling ruins of old americana everywhere along the by-ways
think about how all that stuff sprung up in the first place
potency was greater, and it facilitated growth in all sorts of ways, to make things possible that themselves served to facilitate greater potency, sustaining states of affairs
millions and millions of more nominally human mass occupying space, but they're worth nothing, less than nothing
if you're king of a shit heap, the place is still a shit heap
and vice versa
