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I don't care?

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The opposite in fact, I pointed out the intellectually dishonest tactic of the thought terminating cliche and then made reference to the actual study, which apparently all of you who 'read the article' seemed to miss the link to, and are kind of salty that I did not.

g besides your own opinion

5 decades of experience dealing with average people has proven to me that rarely has my opinion been the less functional one. Yes I am arrogant, and I don't really care much about the opinions of others because most people never really bother giving any serious thought to anything they repeat or insist and I'm tired of the time and effort I do take to deepen my understanding of these topics is casually dismissed.

Have you ever sat down and thought about how a dollar flows through the economy from printing to disposal? I have and it took hours across several days, and I'm STILL SURE I missed some aspects of counterfeiting and outsider art but I can bet you a box of donuts that almost no one in this thread has even spent more than 120 minutes in their lives considering it unless it is part of their degree or career. Not even hedge fund managers know the whole picture.

Or how about figuring out the square acreage of space farm you would need to feed and oxygenate a single human? Because I have and it's 17 - 22 acres depending on how many legumes you can stand in your diet for your average human. I don't even think the Muskrat has broken down the circular crop rotation cycle well enough to keep their soil fertile for 3 harvests and he STILL thinks he's going to get to Mars in his lifetime.

That's the other thing that pisses me off, there are a fucktonne of idiots with bad ideas that fail constantly making a hell of a lot more money than the people who predicted those failures and were promptly ignored.

It's like a Cassandra complex but instead of having meaningful prophecy ignored, it's a clear eyed vision of our current present reality that gains the most scorn and vitriol. It kind of makes me hate all of humanity until proven otherwise on an individual basis.