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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: elmatador who wrote (106959)	8/10/2014 8:42:05 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219715

None of them will rule, <It’s long been obvious the BRICs are coming. > though there's a popular idea that China will be taking over from USA which took over from Europe which took over from Islam which took over from China which took over from the Roman Empire [as leader of the world] which took over from Egypt. Maybe that's not quite the right history but it's near enough for government work. Working for low paid is not enough to become world leader. They'll be limited by their own bribery, corruption and general lack of Virtuous Victorian Values. The biggest community of interest now is in the Anglosphere of Cyberspace and of Cyberspacoids in general. We the Cyberspacoids are looming large. Don't be misled by Twitter, Facebook and other trivia. Allegiance to the Ethereal Order free of temporal bounds is the harbinger of the future. Giga$bucks are already flowing within Cyberspace without touching ground anywhere. Bitcoin is burgeoning despite its poor design. More and more people derive their income from Cyberspace. People's hearts go where their pockets lead. Temporal democracies are just thieving kleptocracies. Serfdom and enslavement by another name. Stockholm Syndrome will keep them going for another decade or three. But more and more people have cut the ties and float free in bits and bytes, touching down to buy groceries, rent accommodation and enjoy 3D wet chemistry. Here's an approximate estimate of the size of the internet a few years ago. mckinsey.com No doubt there's more up to date information. The trend is large and the size already substantial. Once tipping points are reached so that people can conveniently protect their capital against temporal barbarians, there will be a tsunami. Jay Chen already reports mega$billions fleeing to Hong Kong. China might not kill the goose which is laying golden eggs. With government spending at over half of spending in most "civilized" countries, there's a vast hydrostatic pressure of dammed money waiting to escape. People do not want their hard-earned money confiscated by barbarians. The more Cyberspace grows, the more it will become a politically powerful community of interest. The thieving politicians bleeding taxpayers will be seduced too as they will want to stash their ill gotten gains away from their colleagues, just as Made in China money flees to freedom when it gets a chance. The 21st century promises to be a LOT of fun. We're already up to a re-enactment of WWI in Ukraine/Ottoman empire [Iraq etc]. Crimea is disputed as in the mid 19th century. A Charge of the Light Brigade can't be far away. Genghis Khan's descendants watch with pecuniary interest as Russia's vast lands and resources go up for auction with the "free" world refusing to bid misguided punishment of Russia for daring to defend themselves against a modern Operation Barbarossa by Weimar USA. Already, they have signed up for an umptygiga$buck deal. 1.3 billion Chinese and 0.14 billion Russians [a rounding error], with booming capital and requirement for resources in China. It seems likely that the ill-advised "free" world will see their natural allies in Russia cast into the Made in China geopolitical expansion as Genghis Khan's descendants expand their non-democracy to all of Russia. History is not yet done. Mqurice