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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.

There is only one pathway to health and sanity: stop consuming snackables of any kind.

The sole remaining reservoirs of trust in American life are personal networks, local enterprises and local institutions.

The few winners of global recession will use the decline as a means to break the chokehold of unproductive BAU elites.

Everyone at the trough believes that the transition from liquid water (free flowing credit) to ice cannot possibly happen. So when it happens, everyone will be surprised.

The financial analysts gloating over the prospect of higher corporate profits resulting from firing workers overlook the collapse of customer satisfaction, productivity and leisure.

Part of why AI chatbots are so dreadful is we know the corporation / agency doesn’t care whether our problem gets resolved or not.

Policy errors have consequences, and we’re only in the first inning of those consequences.