Guest post by John Rubino from his substack:
This is the conclusion of yesterday’s The Aristocracy Is Eating the Peasants, which claimed that the world’s elites are harvesting the rest of us and ended by asking what they’ll try next. Here are some of the possibilities:
A shooting war with Russia and/or China. This would be a true global emergency, justifying the suspension of civil rights, massively higher defense spending, and sharply lower interest rates (once again enriching the weapons makers and Wall Street). The risks are existential, but the size of the potential payoff apparently makes it worthwhile for billionaires and CEOs who own doomsday bunkers in Montana and New Zealand.
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). The world’s central banks are planning to convert national currencies into their own versions of bitcoin, with a few twists. CBDC “money” will reside in accounts with the central bank, which will be able to track our movements and spending, “program” the currency to, say, lose value over time to force us to spend, or simply empty the accounts of those who use their money for unapproved things like donations to out-of-favor political causes. Financial privacy ends if CBDCs win.
Another pandemic. The first one went so well that they’re already hinting about another (watch any Bill Gates video). With the number of bio-weapons labs now working on such things, it is, alas, only a matter of time before covid on steroids or something worse shows up and governments again try to lock down the world and enrich Big Pharma.
Climate lockdown. Some powerful interests are apparently keen to use future weather events as a pretext for a social credit scheme that tracks carbon footprints. Which would then be used to limit things like driving, farming, and home heating. But only for the 90%.
Or…the Jackpot. In a couple of iconic science fiction writer William Gibson’s books, a near-future world suffers through not just one crisis, but all of them at once. Nuclear war, pandemic, environmental collapse, financial turmoil, you name it, it happens in a single decade. When the dust clears, 80% of humanity dead and the survivors are governed by a handful of kleptocrats (aka “klepts”) who have the best tech and most of the money. It’s like Gibson wrote script for the World Economic Forum’s base-case scenario.
Okay, enough with the fear porn
Sorry to dump so much gloom-and-doom on you all at once. But now it’s out of the way and we can start on the fun stuff like developing personal and financial resilience and placing bets on massively profitable financial events such as a currency reset. It won’t be as scary, but it will never be dull.
Guest post by John Rubino from his substack.
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