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 yeah, it is a corkscrew going downwards, at some point the people are gonna realise they have no more cork to go and flip out, guillotines time 
 Most do not want the realization because it means they must change and make effort 
 yeah, i think that it's coming in the next cycle for them, we are deeper in recession than we were during the great depression by orders of magnitude, worse than the winter of our discontent, tecehnological deflation is hiding it 
 Problem is, the mainstream kids just don’t see it that way. They don’t try to. They believe what they are taught in high school and by the media. They don’t comprehend the forces affecting their lives. 
 at some point reality will pierce the membrane of brainwashing, it is inevitable that eventually the tricks run out of effect, it's the same as how eventually printing more money becomes impossible due to literally mathematics (and wheelbarrows)

speaking of that last one, they have a trick against the appearance of wheelbarrows but the dizzying moves of NGU will show it, that is still to come