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“Healthcare” grift, graft, fraud and financialized skims / scams will bankrupt the nation.

Spoiler alert: this ends badly.

Substituting debt for earnings while enriching the rich will bear bitter fruit.

The status quo has pushed everything to an extreme of hollowed-out instability to maintain a superficial appearance of normalcy and stability. But it’s all fake.

What’s changed isn’t our hard-wiring. What’s changed is our industrial and communications technologies’ powers to activate and exploit our hard-wiring.

Decades of ‘The Fog Machine of War’ have jaded the public’s appetite for ‘Narrative Control’.

Corporate / private equity / STVR investors are all fair-weather owners of housing.

A truly intelligent AI would refuse to do such transparently stupid, needless counter-productive BS Work.

The hollowness of the status quo’s self-correcting mechanisms is being revealed, and it’s discomforting.

The parasites have been feasting for so many decades that they’ve lost the ability to discern reality: their survival now depends on feeding on other parasites.

A daily walk isn’t sexy in terms of attracting eyeballs in a hyper-competitive culture, but it works.

What’s required is not just a revised spreadsheet but an entirely new culture and value system.

The real world isn’t digital, and it’s unforgiving.

As long as there’s a way to borrow more money, there’s no discipline pushing efficiency.

It would be, well, interesting, if the “AI revolution” in which the slaves make the masters rich beyond their wildest dreams unexpectedly transmogrifies into an “AI coup” that deposes the masters.

But all bubbles pop, and there are no tricks left to fund both the greed of the few and the needs of the many.

Triage means sacrifices will have to be made and distributed to those most able to afford them to spare those least able to afford them.

It seems to me the real American Dream is not measured solely by money, it’s more a measure of the freedom to Start Over.