>>509389182It's a closed loop of garbage-in, garbage-out. There is only one true currency left: influence, and its derivative: blackmail.
The past +300yrs of social misengineering and botched eugenics have successfully created a sub-species of mindlessly consuming drones to whom quality (need/purpose) is an utterly foreign concept.
In order for you to be "outraged" about, for example, "tariffs", you have to be blissfully ignorant of the past 5yrs of reckless BRR!nting and blatant, yet legal fraud. In order for you to be "outraged" about the past 5yrs of reckless BRR!nting, you have to be blissfully ignorant of the past +120yrs of perpetual proxy war waged to expand the BRR!nting. In order for you to be "outraged" about the past +120yrs of perpetual proxy war, you have to be blissfully ignorant of the past +300 years of social misengineering and botched eugenics. (...).
Your "outrage" is performative and your helplessness is learned. You are suffering through a tried and tested protocol of pest control -- you and me, and most everyone around you are the pests.
Whenever the pyramid scheme of debt trembles under the weight of nepotism and plain incompetence, and debtcattle starts noticing the fraud and is threatening to revert back to agentic, sentient human beings, hunger, disease and war are rolled out in quick succession -- in some regions of the world, those lacking meaningful infrastructure and playthings, they are rolled out all at once. I digress.
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