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Yes, the connecting thread is the USD hegemony. Hyperinflation and eventual collapse is not only possible but has been inevitable ever since QE started.

The stock market is now a farce and price is dictated by market makers, not "discovered". The housing market is nonsensical and has priced a generation out of home ownership. The US military is evil incarnate and our civil court system is based on whoever has the most money and is willing to lie wins. I'm doing everything I can to speed the collapse of a broken system and I'm sure there are many more like me.

The USD and therefore the world is on a count down timer to total collapse, problem is no one knows how long we have left.

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There are so many more systems than the USD. There's many more systems than money itself! There are industrial systems, food systems, logistical systems, educational systems, ethical systems, religious systems, political systems.

It's naive to think all those systems are subservient to some other "master" system, or that the fragility of those systems is multiplicative instead of offering complementary strengths. It's naive because none of those systems developed dependent on the other systems, nor were they independent; they've all been developing together for thousands of years. It's like an ecosystem of systems; if one fails (such as currency) then there's a dozen or more others that are ready to pick up the pieces. And it's myopic to think currency is even one of the more important systems, as though it's somehow more important than the other foundations of human experience that led us here.

Every complex adaptive systems exists teetering on the edge of collapse. Doomsayers are not insightful, they are just near sighted.

And accelerationism is an incredibly pretentious stance. People actually think they have understood perfectly what civilization is and what it ought to become. That is a colossal claim.

> I'm doing everything I can to speed the collapse of a broken system

How?

By posting that comment.

>I'm doing everything I can to speed the collapse of a broken system and I'm sure there are many more like me.

You and the people you care about will, of course, be totally unaffected and simply observe the suffering of Those Other People Who Don't Matter from a distance, then step out of your bunker into the newly rejuvenated world and begin enjoying life?

Wake up! YOU ARE ALSO INSIDE THIS MACHINE, ALONG WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND LOVE.

Accelerationists and preppers are merely engaging in self soothing behavior to mitigate their discomfort stemming from a lack of understanding and control over the world.

Some of them are sociopaths, and the accelerationist crowd especially is full of unabashed fascists.

Fair enough, I was thinking about people reaching such positions under the impression that they are correct, not those appropriating a convenient narrative to serve their goals.

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