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My favorite comment on the article is “The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

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[–] hector@lemmy.today 6 points 4 hours ago

They are looking for the real suckers, that think things are going to continue on like this for 100 years.

I mean jesus, for a minute lets forget about climate change, and how increasing climate instability will fuel more political turbulence, how feedback loops are accelerating climate change beyond our predictions we are fed that were always undershoots to justify business as usual.

Just looking at politics and business now, the rich have taken from working people more than is sustainable. Not even directly taking, stated inflation is lower than real inflation, so we take a pay cut every year on top of everything else, and on top of consolidated industries that have conspired to increase their share of profits, and a government unwilling to enforce anti trust laws. A court system unwilling to check corporate interests, but willing to allow the government to go full nazi.

The economy is not sustainable as such. It's getting worse for working people, that can't afford professional services even with good jobs now. Let alone the low wage workers. Health care and drugs are beyond any semblance of reason. People have to give away their life savings for routine end of life medical problems that used to cost a reasonable amount of money.

There is no way the economy holds for 100 years. A 10 year bond might even be getting a little optimistic. The government is openly corrupt, working people don't have the money to live a dignified life for the first time since the great depression in the US, and the rich are showing no sign of not taking exponentially more of economic output with their corrupt governments in tow.

Any fool that thinks dollar amounts are a good store of value as such to receive for the next 100 years is a sucker.