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Are we wise enough to refuse politicians’ offer of “free money” to spend today that was stolen from our future, and from our future generations? Probably not.

If “growth” is all that matters, that leads to depending on credit and asset bubbles, which are self-liquidating in ways few see because, well, it’s complicated.

The consensus holds there will be another bubble after the Everything Bubble pops, but this might be misplaced confidence in the godlike powers of central banks.

Debt has moral implications, and in denying this, we’re choosing a rendezvous with Nemesis

Or maybe it’s just me, and all is well. Time will tell.

Or maybe it’s just me, and all is well. Time will tell.

In this realm of extraction, exploitation, artifice and illusion, “growth” is garbage.

The key insight of “let it rot” and “the garbage time of history” is the inauthenticity of all “reforms.”

Since we didn’t need relationships in a transactional system, we no longer have any.

In the labored daze of AI hype and GDP “growth,” few seem to notice the workforce is tired of being exploited as an uncomplaining resource.

The most pressing need now is for AI tools to protect us from AI tools.

What nobody seems to notice is all the incentives for deploying AI are perverse.

Extortion is the keystone of America’s Mafioso Economy.

We’re humoring our self-delusion.

AI is not so much a tool that everyone uses in more or less the same way, but a mirror in which we see our own reflection–if we care to look.

We’re frogs in a pot that’s being heated so gradually that we no longer notice the sewage is extinguishing the utility of the Web.