RE: Plastic diamonds, old gold and future mining booms
"Crypto does not smell."
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I see so many people proud to have gamed the system... Speaking about support services on state level, EU level, etc. The equivalents of whales and plankton out there but truth be told, whales almost cannot afford to state openly their pride of gaming the system. It's the smallest fish who takes public joy in it. People below the line of regulation. Yup, there is a line on the bottom, too - below it you feel as untouchable as those above the top line.
We're living in no laws for the rich and no laws for the poor times...The middle should work for everybody else, too. Same as with age.
Have I mentioned the Flashback story by Dan Simmons concerning such topics? I know I've told about it to a lot of people in live meetings. It depicts a future very nearby in which economy has fallen victim to support systems and bubbles bursting. One person in the US working for... was it 27 or 72! persons who rely on that one's earnings.
Despite the stink placed upon it.
This is the case just about everywhere on earth and I find that in Finland, (one of the richest countries in the world per capita), taking pleasure in petty crime or something gained for nothing is enormously popular.
The state of the world economy is set to collapse and that isn't going to be too far from the numbers I believe as most people won't have the ability to work, even if they wanted to because of AIs and automation of all kinds. I predict there will be the working class of 30% and the supported 70.