The more people (aka. "everyone") who baseline the indefinite status quo into their current level of "assumptions", the more destructive the implosion. Currently at level "11".
In the end Faux News denialism will contribute more to the obliteration of the status quo than any other factor...
Contrary to Idiocratic belief, self-interest isn't some aspirational higher ideology, it's an instinct, like two dogs fucking on a lawn:
All ideologies need a pure maxim to follow so the acolytes can chant it over and over again mindlessly. Especially when it appeals to the basest human instinct for self-interest. For capitalism, the maxim is the maximization of profit. Not the optimization of profit, or the sustainable amount of profit, only the maximum would suffice.
Well, the first thing to go was honest government, because after that it was all downhill: the environment, the national debt, a 35 year trade deficit, 17 factories per day, millions of jobs, intellectual property, craftsmanship, the entire future state economy. Basically everything had to go as the future was steadily winnowed down to "now" to make the quarter. Those who arrogantly assume that they alone will be spared, will be the most devastated.
Viewing the economy as a zero sum game is a Third World mentality that leads to a Third World outcome.
This was all an experiment. Someone had to prove it wouldn't work. The apologists for greed will say it was all because of Central Banks, and if "we only had a gold standard, none of this would have happened".
Sure.
The experiment in the maximization of greed at the expense of everything else, is ending. Up next, barter economy. Back to basics. And that's the best case scenario.
The human consumption call options who don't see it coming, better luck next life.
The hierarchy of needs:
"Acceptance of facts? What the fuck is that?"
