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siliconia 11 points ago +11 / -0

Except those producers have built a system that eliminates their necessity, at least in the short term. Anyone can use their blueprints and the systems created by the past producers to become cookie cutter producers themselves. This is the only reason China isn't a third world country. They cut and paste the systems past producers made. Now Atlas shrugs and no one bats an eye, because nothing happens. What the leeches have realized is that they can pilfer the system and get rich doing nothing but being corrupt. There's probably a failure point where corruption exceeds production, but who's to say where that's at.

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phibetared 4 points ago +4 / -0

Venezuela, that's one who

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siliconia 4 points ago +5 / -1

That's true, they stole from their future selves to pay themselves temporarily, and now they're fucked. We just did the same thing. The only positive thing about Biden winning, is that if we can survive the 4 years of Biden after the economic collapse, it'll be conservatives all the way down for 12 years or more. Assuming there's not a civil unrest, civil war, famine, insurrection, invasion, whatever before we get there.