The biggest winners of the American economy fear they're sinking fast

The biggest winners of the American economy fear they're sinking fast(washingtonpost.com)

12 points by sseagull 33 days ago | 3 comments

sseagull 33 days ago |

indoorfish 33 days ago | |

A long time ago a very wise man told me that they way economy works is like a magnifying glass. Things are detected, the glass moves, and what's underneath is blessed with the political/economic grease to get the thing that is wanted going.

The question was always who moves the glass. It sounds like last calls for ladders being rolled up on the nouveau-riche.

Obscurity4340 32 days ago |

> Smith counts herself among the ranks of the disillusioned, though she said she’s not pessimistic about the technology itself. “I just don’t personally see the point of doing it just to make a couple of people quadruple trillionaires,” she said.

Or, the Leopard finally tolls for thee