Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "The Slow Collapse of Long Term Planning" video.

  1. You understand more than you know. After all, which American history student is going to get far studying their homeland's hist{y of economic imperialism and colonialism? Not when it's going to take you 20 years to pay off your student loan if you do. So most of the ways and means former economic hegemons became powerful gets buried. This is why it was refreshing to hear a Vietnamese citizen remind us in striking terms how the West got rich, and left a lot of people either dead or poor in the process. In brief, the same tools that was used to expropriate wealth abroad have been turned on the folks back home. Why? Well, almost everywhere that could be screwed over has been already done. So, no more nice things for the assetless poor or the asset-limited workers, like a living wage, affordable Healthcare, a home you own, and education in the West. No, sir! You will own nothing and be happy, is no longer irony. That's the plan, so the Asset Wealthy won't be asked to pay for the mitigations climate change will need. That why rich folks are no longer building on the beach, but kicking the poor folks out of the hills, and moving up there instead. That's why they want you to treat the homeless as invisible and disposable. And that's why they love the fact that poor white folks are happy to pretend they're better than poor black folks, even when they're both sitting on the same dungheap the asset wealthy have allowed them to sit on. Eventually, one day, enough people will join up the dots, and actually do something about it, but until then, enjoy the show as desperate billionaires deny, deflect, and depose any evidence that they're to blame for this and the future messes coming down the line, which they are. They thought that the postwar bump to American fortunes was invincible and would last for ever. And they did nothing to maintain it at home. And of course, it couldn't last unless they did. And they didn't. So, look after yourselves, because the asset wealthy have no intention of doing that. Good Luck.
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