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Seems very intentional.

Every spare dollar a low/middle class person has in the US is destined to be sucked up by a mix of medical, education, pharma and housing.

People still having money in a 401k means there is money on the table these economic vampires are missing out on.

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Rather than vainly trying to escape, you should embrace it. I learned this from my brother who had an epiphany: our purpose in life as humans, is to pay bills.

Once you realize that, your soul is saved. No more worries, no more negativity, paying the bills is what defines you as human and makes you complete. The water, electricity company, car, pharma, doctors, education system ... all help you in realizing your purpose in life by charging you as many bills as possible. You should rejoice!

It’s almost like a weird echo of Augustine’s City of God

This is the tragic irony of the whole thing: that to have any influence you must play the game, but playing the game mostly limits your choices to those which encourage and strengthen the conditions in which the game remains stable.

It's really quite robust as a self-organizing system. It's hard to see a way out of this local minimum without some major, sudden, and total change in the social and cultural attitudes of the people involved.

The only winning move is not to play.

Covid lockdown was the perfect time to just not login and make Congress deal with it.

Only 1 million sworn LEO in US including local, state, fed. No way police can pull together a door to door dragnet with those numbers and 3 guns per adult in US. I mean look at the Ulvad police and assume many are just like that. Pathetic.

Gen Z seems aware it’s all political chicanery so unless the rural nutters blow stuff up, GZ and Millennials could leverage their 170 million strong to steamroll over 50 million GenX via politics.

See https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch

You'll notice everything is on an installment plan. Your mortgage, your CC, your insurance. It's all financialized, and all becomes cashflow and interest rate limited.

The goal of the Fed is to _crash the economy just in time for the election_ oops I mean control inflation.

So you think the fed wants to get the opposition party elected?

Does the fed have a single party it wants to align with?

Mammon.

There is no opposition party. Their policies are virtually the same.

Their economic policies are literally exactly the same, no exceptions.

> literally exactly the same, no exceptions

"Virtual" once meant that!

I'm not sure it did...

No they aren't.

A single example?

https://old.reddit.com/r/WhatBidenHasDone/

A single example?

Democrats passed the ACA.

GOP tried to repeal the ACA, and passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

ACA is not economic policy.

Democrats have not even come close to opposing any tax cuts that I know of. They complain in the media but still vote for them every time.

Democrats did not oppose the jobs act. Again, complaining in the media doesn't count.

From a European perspective this is such an insane take. As if you could compare the neo-fascist MAGA GOP with the mostly centrist democrats.

Do you believe the GOP agenda of roling back civil liberties will stop at Roe vs. Wade?

Their economic policies are the same. Their moral legislation is where they differ and how they divide and conquer the voting public to remain in control.

I'd say it's the opposite. They want to sustain the economy and avoid a crash. Though I don't think it's about elections but maintaining the current power structures and the current status quo.

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