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Nothing you wrote there makes sense, there is just no chain of causality in it.
by cineticdaffodil 2mo ago
Nothing you wrote there makes sense, there is just no chain of causality in it.
- Grombobulous 2mo agoCan you explain further? I’d be happy to see some of my specific ideas challenged.
- cineticdaffodil 2mo agoThe whole economic landscape of the us is artifical. As in what survives and thrives does not need to provide any value, but need only have political connections, to remove competition and be good enough to supress all alternatives. The oil and gas industry survives and dictates policy not because its very influential- its simply the economic backbone of the empire via the petrodollar. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar And the people life in de-concentrated large scale villages instead of cities, because the empire is in no need to tax economic activities such as moving large distances via driving a car efficiently. So the government, cursed with the ressource curse of beeing able to sell security outside of the us- pacifies the population with economic presents, which are often just frozzen in time retro trinkets. One can not derive any political and economic lessons from such a strange diorama. There is no incentive
- fugalfervor 2mo agoYou didn't take the time to point out what was wrong with what they said, and why. So please do so if you don't want people to just ignore your comment.