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The road to Hell

And to quote Chris Rea:

And all the roads jam up with credit / And there's nothing you can do / It's all just bits of paper / Flying away from you // Look out world take a good look / What goes down here // You must learn this lesson fast / And learn it well.. // This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway / Oh no, this is the road to Hell..

Yep, at the end of the day, it really is all just bits of paper. (if you're lucky! If you're unlucky, all your accumulated wealth is no more than a database row).

A billion or ten in the bank might buy you a nice remote island, complete with self-sufficient farm & family-sized nuclear bunker complete with a good Internet & global knowledge archive, with every book ever printed. And enough weapons to sink a flotilla of refugee ships. But only if you buy it NOW, before the shit hits the fan.

Shall we have a sweep-stake on how long it will be before WWIII is declared? (or until the next nuke goes off in anger?) Will Britain or the US or the Balkan states have civil wars first? What will global populations do when the lights go off and the food runs out?

We have a pandemic which (as TFM says) simply shifts all the wealth upwards, while the poor drop off (dead) - we have wildfires & human activity pushing up global temperatures, driving crop failures and insect plagues, and we have a geopolitical and economic system that is reaching breaking point.

We have thousands of people here in the UK who are about to be made homeless as the ban on evictions is lifted tomorrow, while the second wave threatens to send even more ordinary folk into economic ruin..

In a few months we will have Brexit (again, great for Billionaires, terrible for the rest of us), so we won't be able to call on our friends for help, since we just spat in their faces. Our food will rot in the lorries as it takes the long way round via northern Ireland (some of it may be blown up by a resurgent IRA along the way) and we are likely to have severe power cuts, if the connectors from Europe that we rely on suddenly become too expensive..

And to top it off, we will most likely need to crown a new King next year. I can't see the poor old Queen living to 96. We will have new division lines & conflict between royalists, anti-royalists, and those of us who don't really care one way or the other except please can we avoid accidentally making Dominic Cummings the new King.. Our armed forces (what's left of them) might not agree on who they work for anymore.. Our legal system would be open to even more usurp by an increasingly corrupt government..

Someone stop the world, I wish to get off.