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Originally Posted by Ducimus
But in case some government agent somewhere is monitoring this, this is all just hypothetical and academic.
I'm much too worried about paying my bills, then lofty ideological and political stuff. In fact i am so uninvolved politically, that I also don't vote. I don't think there is much point in it anymore, no matter who's in office, it always ends up the same way anyway.
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Yes, but it is the social contract that has been broken, and it has been broken numerous times in history. Debts are intended to rise in a way you will not be able to pay them - indeed no one can, not even banks or nations.
Normally the banks would have broken down, but by some divine inspiration our glorious governments decided to bail them all out - because otherwise it would have meant the end of the political class as well.
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You are right, as long as the government does not really change, the common man will get less and less influence, being held in an artificial state of slavery money-wise, trying to pay his bills and having no time to think about anything else.
Also if nothing changes, society will go down like all those isolated empires did - only that nowadays it is no isolated nation breaking apart, but the whole world uses this system, and is interconnected.
One of the problems is that politicians are not too bright mostly (indeed some (!) have been and are politicians, because they have been proven useless anywhere else), and while they are intelligent enough to keep themselves at power and keep up their network, they are lacking in having a greater view, and reall thinking ahead without party blinders.