Re: what can I do to prepare for an economic depression?
Not everyone is doing unimportant things. I monitor and control oil and gas production and processing from Wyoming to the Gulf of Mexico, but I don't actually make anything. I am in an extractive industry, exploiting resources that belong to the American people, typically only paying the government, the people's proxy, the 12.5% royalty fees, which they use to improve access to the energy resources to be exploited and staff a regulatory bureaucracy. Then, the people's oil and gas gets sold back to them at inflated prices. Shit, not only do I not make anything, I'm helping my company rob from the poor and give to the rich. What a bastard.
Besides... a trained monkey could probably do my job about as well... for peanuts. Don't tell anybody.
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