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Behind the facade of normalization, even high-income lifestyles have been ghetto-ized.

This is why those who understand these dynamics are getting out, even though the city was their home.

Those seeking to buy a house as shelter for their household can’t compete with the wealthy seeking assets to snap up and hoard for appreciation.

It’s nice to anticipate sunny weather, but it’s a good idea to carry an umbrella just in case the forecasts prove overly optimistic.

That real harm will result from the use of AI tools is a given.

Rather than attempt to evade Caesar’s reach, a better strategy might be to ‘go gray’: blend in, appear average.

We need to start thinking outside the current system, which has no solutions.

The expediencies and policy extremes have yet to be explored, much less exploited.

If the leadership chooses happy-story PR and toothless reforms for show in the hopes it will all blow over, these subterfuges have the potential to push dissatisfaction beyond the point of control.

What Kafka got right is how societies can become busily dysfunctional.

The harder the authorities and pundits push the “inflation is under control” narrative, the faster they erode public trust and confidence in the future value of labor and “money.”

Imagine the impact of the Fed’s new policy on the bottom 50% of American households, who currently own near-zero financial assets.

Lest you weep for those whose phantom wealth will be drained away, recall that few win when a reserve currency dies. Labor can start earning the day after the reset, but the capital lost is gone for good.

So the Deep State is good, but the Total Surveillance State is even better.

Awakening from the dream of painless financial / political solutions, we find the status quo is not the solution, it is the source of our decay.

Passively waiting for centralized powers to “save us” from their own excesses is not a solution.

Many consumers have yet to grasp how vulnerable they are to increasingly routine digital-component failures.

We trust what we own / control, and the difference between elites and commoners is the elites own / control the wealth and power that dominate our daily lives.