Stock prices follow profits until positive feedback loops create bubbles. More buyers raise prices, higher prices attract more buyers. Then the music stops and someone's holding the bag.
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For 10,000 years life expectancy was 28 and GDP was $100. Around 1800 both went vertical. Humanity spent 10,000 years in tutorial mode then someone pressed start.
USPS junk mail 65% discount kills 100 million trees annually. You pay $126/year so credit card offers arrive faster. Beautiful circle of life.
15,000 nuclear weapons can kill everyone 2.6 times. After the first death, you're just showing off with expensive redundancy.
FDA restricted what 23andMe tells you about your DNA. Takes doctors 17 years to use new genetic research. Free tools interpret your data now.
75% of your DNA is junk that cells photocopy billions of times for absolutely no reason.
First two years Trump stocks up 21%. First two years Obama stocks up 71.2%. That's 3.4x faster. Trump's gain is just 50-year average. Like getting a participation trophy for existing.
Opioid deaths increased 1,000% while meth deaths rose 5,105% and cocaine 670%. Government blames drugs, ignores untreated mental illness epidemic.
2.5 million people created a democracy. You have 335 million who can't agree on anything.
Democracies doubled, autocracies halved in 60 years. Progress measured by fewer countries where one person decides if you die. Bar is underground.