Honestly, this recovery is where we should have been in 2010.

Trump and capitalism will get the blame.

Pretty much.

Ushering in the socialist ... only to tank it further.

Yep.

Yippes!

Mostly the socialist is going to just seize control of everything.

I fear we have a Chinese future.

Remember when everyone thought the Great Firewall would have to collapse?

And now Britian is monitoring all communications on the internet for "child porn"

Not sure. My model for the future is a regional patchwork of fifdoms.

The irony, is that the socialist will only cement income inequality.

People in the US criticize how lawmakers get stupid rich.

But it's nothing on the Chinese CCP

Yes we will all be equal ... equally poor.

also its nothing on Venesuela

No, the guys at the top of the party always win.

Bernie Sanders is Rich. Even though he does a god job hiding it.

pratel, for sure.

In China, the party suppresses and kind of "rumors" about the wealth of the top members of the CCP.

Really meaning they hide how much more they make.

And then they go slip it offshores.

Yes, I read somewhere that they have like 80 billionaires in the central committee.

Sounds right.

Though I heard it was even more centralized than that.

They are staying one step ahead of the pitchforks.

I could live in fiefdoms though. Atleast one ought to be free and democratic.

A Chinese future though...

Yes, you really need to go local and carve out a space for yourself.

Too bad CO got colonized by Commifornians. A place in the mountains like that is ideal.

Hard to say where, or perhaps virtually a space. An economy isolated from the rest.

I'm not fond of auturky.

I don't think it actually works out in the long run.

what is auturky?

But you clearly can have political separation without economic seperation.

A theory of economic development in which a country is completely independent and able to meet all it's own economic desires on its own.

It was a guiding principle of the USSR.

ok

Autakries tend to not trade much if at all.

The problem is that in doing so you lock yourself off and fall behind.

Brexit is about economic and political seperation. BUT seperation is not the same as isolationism