@ianbremmer The replies? Mantric dollar-zombiehood—ontic blindness, parading as enlightenment, screeching through the braindead megaphone of late modernity. Make no mistake, the terminal fantasy sustaining “the whole Big Lie that economic logic is the only model that will work” is finished.
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Copy of tweet thread: CEOs on their yachts drinking thousand dollar bottles of champagne getting economic anxiety over the idea of paying their workers like $5 more an hour. Was it Cannes? I forget now. But I do recall the bankers bringing in sex workers in motor launches. Deal-making. QT: · 1/ Trained as an investment banker, I began my working life as a financial journalist in the richest square mile on the face of the planet. My brief? International-capital-markets primary-market syndication, central bank regulation, and sovereign debt.
@Plough Dust on the scales. As if a vast, interlocking array of global structures of religious and secular consciousness and power somehow guarantees existential absolution from the planetary reality and consequence of "a vast and hideous occasion of sin." There's a Reckoning Day to pay.