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We're not quite to the point of a complete breakdown of the federal government, and full privatization of government within a confederacy/network of technofascist territories.
There also seems to be some tension continuing to build between the more traditional oligarchs who became wealthy via control and influence over the federal reserve, and a push towards crypto based economy.
I guess if one individual owns the majority of wealth, and helps creates high levels of unemployment by hyping up one of the dumbest propaganda campaigns in history (which, to his/their credit, people tripped over themselves to get in on the ground floor), it leaves the federal reserve no choice but to print more money so that a trillion dollars becomes slightly less significant than it was before.
Printing money while unemployment is up and most people can't make ends meet, seems to be a one way train ticket off the edge of a cliff if your goal is to retain some semblance of a federal government.
Maybe the fed reserve could at least start injecting that money directly back into society by just giving it to communities and access to healthcare, or even just providing a basic income so people can keep up with inflation, instead of waiting for it to never trickle down from the people who are hoarding it.... So yeah that's never going to happen.
What I'm trying to understand though, is the long term logic (if it exists) of carrying the tradition of wealth hoarding over into a new cycle? What keeps a new oligarchy from eventually forming and taking over the broligarchy, just like the broligarchy took over the traditional oligarchy? Just the belief that the level of control and surveillance in the new technofascist system won't allow for it?
What do you mean by "new cycle"?
I guess new system, but a lot of the same behavior as the old one. As in end of U.S. federal government, end of or at least greatly reduced power for traditionalist oligarchs, and whatever the former U.S. looks like as officially just a confederacy/network of techno fascist territories.
Main difference seems to be no federal reserve and the claim that crypto based economies would decentralize banking in the future controlled by the new technology centric oligarchs. But it seems like it will just be decentralized the same way control of each territory.
It's not a federal government, but most resources are privately held and wealth will remain in the hands of whatever corporation or oligarch controls that particular territory. Didn't Theil or Yarvin call them something like techno monarchies?
So what keeps the next line of humans or machines from taking advantage of the societal turmoil caused by the greed of the new oligarchs, and attempting a new butterfly revolution?