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A Boring Dystopia
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I wanted to make a comment about, sounds like a tax shelter more than fearing instability. US passport is still gonna work worldwide unless something goes really wrong. Nobody's telling you you have to do something like this to have a home in Cyprus if shit's going down back home.
And then I started thinking about it more. Yeah, I can see things going so badly wrong if Trump gets a second term that US banks back home won't be stable, US dollars won't be stable, US citizenship won't be the same opener of doors that it is right now, as of 5-10 years hence. I think this is unironically a very good idea. Not like it's GTFO time right now. But yeah, it's "let's make a contingency plan" time right now, if the US becomes neo-Russia for 20 or 30 years starting 2 or 3 years from now.
Like if a wealthy businessman was in Germany in 1931, do you think they would have been sensible to start making plans for a new place to have a full home base that wasn't Germany? Yeah I think they would have. it makes sense to me.
The rich are the ones that are stoking the instability though. Decades of pushing to make bribes legal, government only working for the wealthy, growing inequality, and they're surprised all of that is causing popular discontent.
"The rich" aren't a monolith. Some are neutral like MLK's favorite target the apathetic liberals, some are working on funding things they think will help some positive progress in the world, and some actively created (and are still creating) the poisonous breeding ground that led to the current apocalypse.
But also, yes.