It is inevitable – again, I stress not just possible but inevitable – that we have another major economic crash in the next few years. I’d say 5-8, but it could be sooner or a little later. Not much later, though.

It will be triggered by something, but the “something” won’t matter, just as contrary to popular belief the collapse of Lehman didn’t really matter as the cause of the financial crisis that began in 2007.

Lehman has been used as a scapegoat, and most people have bought it, just as most people buy most propaganda. (Another bit of bought and sold propaganda is the hoocoodande defense that I’ve seen several very smart people hornswoggled by.)

Anyway, having a lot of liquid money (if you have means) and not being in debt are steps to take now, not years from now.

It bothers me every time I go into a bank and get better treatment because my bank account is large.

It irks me because I remember very well when my family was poor and lived in a trailer and we got no good treatment at all. In fact by bank types and similar we were treated like complete scum, as if we were painful to look at.

I know all too well that the same person kissing my ass now treated me and people like me like radioactive spume when my family had nothing.

It’s not that I want to be treated poorly, it’s just that I want everyone to be treated well.

It won’t be long before the EULAs of anything you buy will become really short, instead of the 200-page legal bewilderments currently used.

The reason they will become short is because they will simply read: “Go fuck yourself, asshole.”