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Those high level bankers are very insulated from the economy. They can afford to be the last ones to figure out the situation. Further, it appears that bankers are far from being visionaries. Visionaries invent things and build companies like Apple, they don't polish their shoes like bankers do...

This thread kicked off something funny in my head. I wonder if donning the glasses of "survival of the fittest" makes a person less fit for survival?

There's losers and there's winners...

Leftist shitholes abound in the US of A.. Inner cities, publicly funded schools, the rotting stench is something one wants to avoid as much as possible. I'd say that when the US of A gets on with it's chosen course of very high inflation that the underfunding of said shitholes will reach crisis...

And futurecurrents [a legend in his own mind] goes for the intellectual and moral high ground.. will he be able to hold it... can he fight his personal demons to a standstill... will the rebels make him look like a complete idiot........ stay tuned folks!

In the 1930's the wealthy class in the US of A were genuinely afraid of commies. The American communists were threatening "the 400" (400 richest families) and listed their names. Worker's rights were on the rise eventually, maybe moreso because The 400 needed to get loonies off their backs than...

fc just makes stuff up.. we sort of laugh and wish his mother well.

and I can kill a gangster for trying to kill me too...

not to mention that brown america has found that they can extort money out of whitey via the government. They are savvy with the publicity. When a gangbanger rams a police car at 3am with a stolen car and is blown away, they next day it's "teenager murdered by police"

Evolution/Big Bang is wildly speculative. The proponents don't understand that sometimes, sometimes they do but they insist they have science on their side and everybody else is in the horrible grip of "blind faith". Evolution is comforting to people that don't want to answer to God, it lets...

How big does the failure have to be before we just dump the whole thing? Given a choice I'd dump the war on drugs first [I like my drugs and I like my freedoms, thank you very much], then the war on poverty. Cap poverty assistance at 5% of GNP and let the rest of us get on with some good living...

Wealth would be feeling the Hawaiian afternoon breeze right about now, contemplating a few days of sailing.. drinking herb-laced coffee, the recipe of which I've worked on for years.. I'd have my French Canadian lady at my side, helping me consume coffee and plan the sailing.. She's an interior...

It's the rise of the machines.. I've been betting on the machines all my life. Karl Marx said it best: [I'm paraphrasing] "The guy with the machines makes the money".

The War on Poverty is an incredible failure. Socialism is an incredible failure for that matter. The politicians on the Left are doing fine however so they will continue with it no matter what.

I suppose you need rule of law first, then arms, to have a polite society. It probably helps to not be in an area populated by death-cult folk that have been murdering each other continually for a dozen centuries.

In the US inner cities, minimum wage is a real killer of entry level jobs and contributes to the high youth unemployment. The LA inner city fights WalMart because they aren't unionized. Gadz, Walmarts employ lots of people and make them feel like they are part of the culture. Socialism seems to...

California's public sector has the unfunded liability thingy going bigtime. They probably don't have that on their books. They are like the Federal government without the money printing capability. They have to try to borrow their way out of debt I suppose. That never works but that won't deter...

INFJ's like to do the costume party thing but they are never great students... He's an introvert for sure, probably all the mass shooters are. Introverts care about their personal space and their stuff.. not people in general. Is he a psychopath? They are usually sneakier about things... maybe...

What is an NDA worth really? Maybe we should have documents stating that a person is not a lying psychopath and have people sign them. A lying psychopath will sign an NDA and trade your intellectual property under the table to another lying psychopath who will say he invented it himself..

An armed society is a polite society. Look at what jerks people are on CB radios. It's because they are anonymous criminals and difficult to get at. Same goes for the internet. All this rudeness we are fully accustomed to, it doesn't happen in real life because there would be consequences..