[ExI] Why is "cost of living" such a big problem?

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 08/11/2026 18:43, Henrik Ohrstrom wrote:
> Regulation failure since the drug market in capitalistic USA is less driven by a free market than the drug market in socialist Sweden. 
>
> Incompetence since Why the Fuck! do you tolerate that shit?


Because it embodies the famed 'American Dream': You Too can become obscenely rich by cheating, lying and, if all else fails, forcing other people to give you their money, as long as you are callous enough to ignore the damage you will do.

What most people seem to fail to realise, or maybe just ignore, is that (1) 'You Too' don't have much of a chance because the system is rigged against you, and (2) Money is a zero-sum game. You can only have multi-billionaires by plunging millions of other people into poverty. Just like politicians, you pretty much have to be a psychopath to be really successful.
-- 
Ben
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." - Pablo Casals, via Albert Einstein