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 Starting to wonder whether no matter how red-pilled I think I am, I really only barely understand the faint outlines of the fraud, that I can’t even come close to wrappig my mind around the scale of it.

How many seemingly empty businesses that last for years are money laundering? How many PhDs are doing pay for play research to further some agenda? The medical system is as big a money-laundering scheme as the military industrial one, maybe bigger. 

How much of modern medicine even works? Doctors are just big Pharma employees, hospital chains are just money-laundering of taxpayer money via medicare and medicaid.

Only a small percentage of people are doing real work that adds actual value. 

It’s fraud upon fraud upon fraud.