There is a lot to process there! I am trying to figure out what is going on, myself. And it is confusing because I think there are several different things going on at once. And I don't know who is actually "in control", if anyone is.
I do know one thing: a modern technological society with advanced manufacturing and services is complicated. And it takes a lot of skilled people to operate, and it takes some amount of openness and honest in government and society. Most people in the United States take things like this for granted. When we get on an airplane, we assume that is has been fueled and someone didn't skim the fuel off the top to sell. So the question for me is---what happens when that stops being true? What happens when those weather technicians don't graph the plot of a Category 5 hurricane? And we can be cynical and say "oh, no one will care and people in Alabama will keep supporting Trump even if their homes are destroyed", but what happens when oil capacity goes offline for a month? I am not saying this will all happen at once, but there are certain realities that are going to start playing out, no matter how much people deny them.
And of course, these things don't affect all countries---there are plenty of "kleptocracies", but one thing is, those kleptocracies need someone to steal from--- but what happens when the world's most productive country turns into a kleptocracy?
no subject
I do know one thing: a modern technological society with advanced manufacturing and services is complicated. And it takes a lot of skilled people to operate, and it takes some amount of openness and honest in government and society. Most people in the United States take things like this for granted. When we get on an airplane, we assume that is has been fueled and someone didn't skim the fuel off the top to sell. So the question for me is---what happens when that stops being true? What happens when those weather technicians don't graph the plot of a Category 5 hurricane?
And we can be cynical and say "oh, no one will care and people in Alabama will keep supporting Trump even if their homes are destroyed", but what happens when oil capacity goes offline for a month?
I am not saying this will all happen at once, but there are certain realities that are going to start playing out, no matter how much people deny them.
And of course, these things don't affect all countries---there are plenty of "kleptocracies", but one thing is, those kleptocracies need someone to steal from--- but what happens when the world's most productive country turns into a kleptocracy?