The future is dire poverty for most people unless something changes
August 13, 2024
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this is about families who have wealth
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of $100 million a billion dollars these
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guys you can't compete with them they
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will get your stuff we're talking now in
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2024 and we're we're on the back end of
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states maybe 100 Years of Living
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standards for the middle class okay we
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have lived through a period where people
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provide decent standards of living for
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their kids on regular wages that is not
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the historical Norm if you look at the
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past 2,000 years of History most of
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history is a small group of extremely
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extremely impoverished people and that
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is because you get Dynamics like what is
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happening now when you have very very
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powerful people they can use that power
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to buy the assets of less powerful
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groups which at the moment is the middle
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class in the government the only reason
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we didn't have that is because for 100
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extremely high rates and that prevented
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