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The guillotine remark resonates in today reality because people feel this scam. Tone-policing the symptom while ignoring the cause is naive.

The C15 thread shows exactly why: It beats modern trucks in pure utility. Today we are paying more for less value.

It is exactly the wealth extraction Ray Dalio describes in Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order (Stage 5 of the debt cycle), resulting in internal conflict.



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