It’ll go perfectly with the Luigi app that highlights millionaires in your vision.

That’s what keeps them going to want more money and get that bigger yacht.

Tech bros in general always seem to do it anyway and deal with complaints afterwards, preferably after lobbying or sueing to remove regulations.

It can create the environment, but doesn’t make it inevitable. People still do boneheaded moves for more money or power. Russia did invaded Ukraine because it thought trade dependencies would rule out sanctions and counteractions.

It was kilometres thick

There was a discussion on climate change. One economist made a model that said 4 degrees C warming only will cause a few percentage GDP. The guy said that if you put -4 in the model, you also get a few percentage cost, and that at -4 there would be a kilometer of ice on the spot they’re sitting and it seems a bit off it would just influence the economy that little.

The higher the Dow, the more money the rich have extracted.

They really don’t like the Europe since it went “apes together strong” and even more since USA did the classic “my way or the highway” and EU pulled out a map to find the nearest highway. Now they need to blast it any chance they get.

Yeah, it’s a nation wide hail Mary project for the rich. Either AI works and it launches them beyond the competition or China passes USA, becomes the new superpower and things get bad anyway. The bottom 99% is going to suffer anyway.

Debt. Unbelievably huge mountains of debt that’ll come due sooner or later.

Because industrialists at the beginning of the industrial revolution lobbied for private land ownership to push out common land ownership so people couldn’t eek out a subsistence life and were forced to work in factories in deplorable circumstances.