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TEP_KimIlSungon Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative

Unempathic people can make hard decisions; Such as choosing between spending a hospital budget on fuel for the generators, building upkeep, restocking, and employee wages –v.s. the life of one child. A lot of people can't make such a decision.

I wouldn't want such people unchecked though.

TEP_KimIlSungon America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars

Seems to me you're missing the forest for the trees.

"The Market" is the spontaneous order generated by millions of individual transactions seeking equilibrium.

Individual traders can fail, be greedy, or succeed, and the market as a whole still balances out.

Think of it like a biotope pond, which exists and naturally adjusts to all sorts of conditions, and think of the Federal Reserve and Banks lending practices as a corporation dumping 40 metric tons of mislabled organic fair-trade ketchup into that pond.

Too much of even a good thing, still poisons the system.

TEP_KimIlSungon Something weird happens to companies when they hit 150 people (2017)

Dunbar's Number is about 150 people, right?