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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 2698985, member: 1886&quot;]The trouble with stackers is their propensity towards maniacal individualism. The trouble with the status quo is their propensity towards maniacal control. I suggest we suck it up because their attacks are not going away any time soon.&nbsp; Personally I&#039;m&nbsp; beginning to welcome the attacks and insults as reassuring feedback that I am not even close to being in &quot;their league.&quot; In fact I may start giving likes to particularly venomous posts about me.</p><p><br /></p><p>And besides it&#039;s only going to get worse. You see, continuity of the status quo, aka &quot;the greater good&quot; requires control. Control requires force. Force requires strong&nbsp; central authority. Strong central authority requires rising returns to scale.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the problem. Returns to scale are falling and have been for decades while returns to resistance via techonology and the internet are rising. And how does the status quo&#039;s monkeys&nbsp; solve that problem? By increasing scale of course. Worked for Little Ben with his QE804 didn&#039;t it?</p><p><br /></p><p>Power is devolving from the status quo to the small and nimble. See figure&nbsp; 1. below:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQoQWUuwIhFxPWHKeTolvSdoKdHoy8XEt0p3sgN8UvEglo4gJsD" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>You can already see it happening. Bezos and Gates have more sovereignty than most nation states but&nbsp; they are small in comparison to a nation state. There are succession movements around the world and even here. There are tech geeks in California who are going to have a floating geedom city state on ships 12 miles out from CA.</p><p><br /></p><p>The status quo is losing their grip. And believe it, they will not step aside and apologize for being a pus-boil on the butt of humanity.&nbsp; They never have and they never will.</p><p><br /></p><p>And BTW, none of this is new. Most of it was pointed out 20 years ago by....oh..oh, my my look at that...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSrFROwL4BY5f6AJdktIho0nCU9a5h2rl-D7nAXnRK8x6TMMvvN" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And published by Simon &amp; Schuster for those who give rat&#039;s behind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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