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Yes, money is _one_ barometer.

I get it -- I often say "we're doomed" -- but very few of us get into the details of what that means. Maybe you have? What does the descent into doom look like? Any predictions?



That’s actually a quote from Atlas Shrugged one of the monologues called the money speech. I should have attributed it sorry. I would say we are heading for further authoritarianism and state capitalism. Things have stagnated.

http://faculty.citadel.edu/sobel/Entrepreneurship%20Class%20...


You say “further” but I can’t see how this situation with Robinhood and it’s CEO is an exemplar of authoritarianism or state capitalism.


Dear recreational club swinger and small dimpled ball whacker who tempts the gods: Conversations wander and this is a good thing. It is ok that a thread several levels down does not share the precise topic with its ancestor, no?




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