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Best part of having been an OTR truck driver during this collapse. "No shortage of parking."
The amount of commercial real estate "masquerading as a distribution center" is simply staggering as well.
Entire regions...Atlanta, Chicago, New Jersey, Los Angeles, the entire State of Texas...incredible.
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I never would have believed such a bubble was humanly possible.
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Ignore the usless/greedy paper-pushers. Trade is the only thing that keeps people employed. Putin knows this.
After doing business with a russian firm since 1996, I know exactly what to expect with every shipment/deal. It isn't ideal, but it is what it is and we get paid.
If the corrupt corporate "leadership" and their political puppets in D.C. can't pull there collective heads out of their asses, America will just be just as corrupt as Russia soon, and that won't be good for anyone.
Another good example is Brazil, corrupt as fuck, but when we ship them soybeans, they show me the money.
Far too many useless/greedy fucking paper-pushers getting in the way of bussiness/trade in America. Cut the fuckers out, fine with me.
Someone stinks of fear, and it certainly isn't Putin.
Hedge accordingly.

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Back to Orlov.

At the 1 hour mark.
What can Americns realistically do?
Nothing, most of them. This is why I don't really want to continue what I've been writing on. I don't think I can really help that many people. I can help them think in different ways, but what can I do practically? Very, very little.

Higgenbotham wrote: > Back to Orlov.
> At the 1 hour mark. What can Americns realistically do? Nothing,
> most of them. This is why I don't really want to continue what
> I've been writing on. I don't think I can really help that many
> people. I can help them think in different ways, but what can I
> do practically? Very, very little.

That's the way I feel. I scorn people who are oblivious to what's
going on in the world, and yet I'm jealous of them. They can go on
day after day, spending money they don't have, leading a swinging
lifestyle, having fun, enjoying merriment and mirth, girls and music
and parties. Then when the Chinese missiles land, then they'll be
dead and I'll be dead, but they'll have enjoyed life more. So what's
the point of it all?

John wrote: Then when the Chinese missiles land, then they'll be
dead and I'll be dead, but they'll have enjoyed life more. So what's
the point of it all?

John, you are not yet an apocaloptimist. Maybe you should move to a Caribbean island and spend more time in a hammock. If you believe missiles will be headed toward where you are now, then the rational thing to do is move. I am nearly certain that nobody will waste a valuable nuke on tiny little Anguilla. There is 2,000+ miles of ocean upwind of me, then the Sahara desert, so I have a low risk of fallout too.

vincecate wrote: If you believe missiles will be headed toward where you are now, then the rational thing to do is move.

What assumptions are you making that lead you to this conclusion?

John wrote:

Higgenbotham wrote: > Back to Orlov.
> At the 1 hour mark. What can Americns realistically do? Nothing,
> most of them. This is why I don't really want to continue what
> I've been writing on. I don't think I can really help that many
> people. I can help them think in different ways, but what can I
> do practically? Very, very little.

That's the way I feel. I scorn people who are oblivious to what's
going on in the world, and yet I'm jealous of them. They can go on
day after day, spending money they don't have, leading a swinging
lifestyle, having fun, enjoying merriment and mirth, girls and music
and parties. Then when the Chinese missiles land, then they'll be
dead and I'll be dead, but they'll have enjoyed life more. So what's
the point of it all?

You're exactly right. Or if the financial system undergoes a complete collapse first, the prudent won't be rewarded anyway. If there were more people like you and Orlov, there would have been a reward in being prudent, but as it stands the prudent will be overrun by the swarming hordes of indifferent mindless locusts. That's the reason there is no solution.

John wrote:

vincecate wrote: If you believe missiles will be headed toward where you are now, then the rational thing to do is move.

What assumptions are you making that lead you to this conclusion?

That you want to live.