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Interested in SF, science, games both video and tabletop, a little bit of finance & economics, and alas US and Canadian politics because I have to. Used to write until I went broke trying.
Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)
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He stood out from the TV pack with his bowties, bushy eyebrows and movie reviews studded with cheeky turns of phrase.
He stood out from the TV pack with his bowties, bushy eyebrows and movie reviews studded with cheeky turns of phrase.
When I first heard of this they weren't talking about criminal charges... now they are. Yikes.
Yup. Bluntly, most people don't know how true wealth works because most people don't have it, and the mechanisms that preserve and perpetuate it have nothing to do with their lives. Most people top out at a 401(k), not counting the gamblers on day trading apps thinking they can time the market.
This is a (minor) plot point in Starter Villain, where all the "billionaires" in the book are horribly illiquid, starved for cash, and have so fucked up their finances that they can't even get a loan based on their paper worth anymore.
Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)
John Scalzi
John Scalzi
I have the secret apprehension -- I can't call it hope and I can't call it fear -- that the hyper-wealthy will stretch things so far that the rest of us invent a different economy and stop caring about dollars at all.
It's not unprecedented.
That T-Rex permanently altered my brain chemistry.
This might be hard for Americans to hear, but the USA getting humiliated by its abject failure as a power during this Iran War might be the best thing possible at this time. The country needs to understand there are consequences for electing a crook.
