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t0lotoday at 7:03 AM1 replyview on HN

What something?


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GolfPoppertoday at 7:55 AM

Look at the factors in play:

-8 billion human beings

-the continuing health impacts of COVID

-increased frequency and magnitude of destructive weather events

-global weather pattern shifts

-increasingly dysfunctional governments in previously stable nations

-markets dominated by players decoupled from reality

-a stock market bubble of immense proportions

-the end of the post-WWII order

-an interlinked global economy with very little resilience

-an increasing amount of war

I have no idea what shape the world that emerges from all the above is going to be, but I strongly doubt it will be better than it was. The obvious analogs seem to be the Great Depression and the World Wars.

I don't know exactly what will start the dominoes falling, but the current war in Persian Gulf has a lot of potential to do so.

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