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Every Crisis Is a Reset Button for the Rich
USA Decline is a Business Model
A Guillotine for Everyone Else
Every ten years, give or take a few wars and an economic implosion, the world we were born into is not just changed — it’s unbuilt, like a Lego castle taken apart by a kid who just found out his parents are getting divorced. Brick by brick, it comes apart: a school here, a union there, some civil rights legislation over yonder. The perpetrators — hedge fund managers, lobbyists, war pigs with MBAs — are rewarded with beachfront properties and government contracts. The victims? They’re told it’s their fault for not coding fast enough.
The good news? They’ve got solutions. The bad news? We are not in any of them. That’s because decline isn’t a bug. It’s the feature. This isn’t mismanagement. This isn’t incompetence. It’s design. They figured out that they could profit from the apocalypse, and they’ve been upselling us on extinction ever since. Every unrepaired road is a green light for a toll privatization deal. Every shuttered clinic is an investor opportunity. They’re not fixing anything because the collapse itself is monetizable. In Enshittified America™, our suffering is their quarterly growth.
And we? We’re the assets they’re burning down for warmth. Not even customers anymore. We’re data…
