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Yeah, and from what I understand the crazy thing is that no one even really makes that much money, or as much money as a 2-300 percent increase in costs over ot

• cmurf 10y ago
  It is the exact opposite of an ant colony. It's almost directionless at a societal scale, cooperative only at a narrow tribal scale. America has many tribes. This is a natural consequence of its diversity. The diversity moderates many things, good and bad mood swings, including efficiency because we're simply not all on the same page, often not even on the same book. The county has gotten a lot of rope to hang itself because baby boomers have charged a massive pile of debt to the country's credit card. That card was built by the silent generation, who also gave the U.S. the gift of the dollar being the world's reserve currency. And in some sense that reserve currency's status is better secured by Brexit, because it demotes the EU and Euro as being a direct equivalent competitor to the dollar. All of the things going on are interrelated, and make complete sense. The way they're happening is about the only way they could happen because as crazy as they seem, they're still the path of least resistance forward from where we are now.