Freedom, real freedom, is an immensely valuable commodity, which is vastly under rated, misunderstood, and is in short supply nearly everywhere, including those places which tout themselves as being "free". <the bubble has a way to go yet, because freedom has become more precious than ever, as darkness envelops and interregnum awaits>
People remain unworried as the gates of doom are built around them, and it's only as the gates are actually closing that the percipient, quick and adroit escape while most are shut in and doomed.
The bias is to believe things are "normal" and therefore "okay" even as things are sliding and events are moving and ideology is shifting.
What would you say a helicopter seat was worth on that last chopper leaving the roof of the building in Vietnam? The Jews who escaped to and were taken into Shanghai were few and fortunate. As the Berlin Wall went up, it was not immediately apparent to many people what the large and lengthy implications were. "As rich as an Argentine" was an expression valid 100 years ago, but now Argentina is used as an example of the end state of self-destruction.
NZ government debt increasing at US$7,000 per year per [non-government employee] taxpayer is serious money, when the GDP per capita is something like US$30,000 [hmmm, same as Hong Kong - I thought Hong Kong was ahead of NZ now]. Especially when NZ is already loaded to the gunwales with debt.
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