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I'm not sure it is safe to build wealth anywhere, anymore, although the US is the country I chose to register my company in, because it is probably the safest.
by _xnmw 3y ago
I'm not sure it is safe to build wealth anywhere, anymore, although the US is the country I chose to register my company in, because it is probably the safest. Still, I have my reservations. Petty theft like shoplifting is being increasingly normalized and justified in the US (see train package theft), and enforcement of property law is slipping, see how home owners can lose their home to "squatting". This is a very slippery slope which I hope doesn't go the way of the Bolshevik revolution, but anything is possible.
- professor_x 3y agoSafe relative to what? Being a Venetian banker or Chinese tea exporter wasnt that safe. What about prospecting for gold in Colorado river valleys where bears hang out? Moving trains of camels thru the Sahara? Chasing whales around for years at a time without going home. Today is way better.
- squigz 3y agoDid you really just compare the state of America to... the Russian Revolution?
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoFair, I think. We had protestors storm the centers of government, attempting to overthrow it, after the last election. So many similarities if you only look.
- nebula8804 3y agoWhats old is new again, just with more enshittification(in your example instead of gladiators storming the capitol we got lard butts one of which died by heart attack)
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- nebula8804 3y agoWonder if some of this is just people needing more and more of a 'thrill'. The US culture is one of auspicious displays of wealth or exceptionalism that things like doing train robberies, drifting in crowded times square, or outrunning cops for the 'likes' is the latest fad.....maybe im overthinking it and its just a lack of parenting.
- subpixel 3y agoMay I suggest that if you're building almost any wealth at all, squatters are below illegal immigration on the list of things you should worry about.