Things to Consider in a Crisis

Recently I returned to minds to find the platform radically altered from a year ago, and well, given the uncertainty of the times I thought it was reasonable to return to write a small addendum to everything that is going on at rapid pace around us. So let's talk about business:

You may be thinking that the world has gone insane, but it hasn't, the real world in which businessmen and politicians make self-serving decisions is very much alive. In spite of being kicked in the groin by the Kung Flu Pandemic, those self-serving people have not lost the ability to make self-serving decisions. The extremity of the apparent collective insanity is only a representation, an interpretive dance if you will, that represents the extremity of the financial state of the world. I mean sure, there could be a civil war, and this could go down the Bosnian War of Independence route, but that's not in the cards for a while yet. Let's just focus on what we can know.

So anyway, back to the real world. Recently I posted here on minds an article about how advertising spend by major corporations is in the toilet. This confirms my own anecdotal evidence that other than the MyPillow guy, I feel like I haven't seen another ad on TV in weeks! Anyway now you don't have to wonder at why Cancel Culture suddenly got so aggressive. Nobody gives a God damn about politics, the American consumer is not spending, therefore advertising is on the chopping block. How do you quickly save the money you spent stenciling Aunt Jemima to every bottle of maple syrup? How do you do it without alerting equity holders to the fact that they should sell your stock immediately? Simple, tell the public it's because Aunt Jemima is racist, and not because you're broke. The same goes for Tucker Carlson. You can easily scapegoat him for being racist because he's a contrarian, and therefore you won't have to pay any money to advertise on Fox News.

But de-fund the police? What could the angle possibly be? Well, dontcha know that the city of Minneapolis is broke too? In fact all cities in the US and all the states in the US have been debt-spending at a relentless pace for years. Often over the past ten years the states actually exceeded the feds for corruption, cronyism and poor financial decisions. Of course we can't tell people up front that their lives aren't worth the billions of dollars that your local government needs to pay their creditors. After all, debt forgiveness is a moral hazard, so think of de-funding the police as an "experiment in social justice" instead of white-collar crime. Of course, private security firms will secure everything worth securing, which does not include you.

If this makes any sense to you, then leave the cities. Act on it to protect yourself, and check your politics at the door.