Rantzilla!

Why are gas prices higher than they were the last time oil prices were so low?

Easy, oil companies are evil.

Okay, not evil, just dying. And like every other dying industry (e.g. coal), they lash out. They lash out and squeeze their customers with all their might until the consumers eventually ditch them (huzzah capitalism).

This cycle then perpetuates itself because people don't learn. They get entrenched and repeat the same processes over and over: Get a job; get paid; keep the company afloat to keep getting paid; watch/enjoy your little slice of life tick by; protect the status quo; have kids so that they can do the same.

The problem is that people can't function with a coordinated effort in a world with 6 billion people. How could they? It's too many for our tribally evolved minds to cope with. Hence, there's no unified control; we don't have anyone who's actually at the top keeping things from digressing into chaos. Instead we have layers upon layers of molasses-like authority.

And what happens when the hulking behemoth of red tape and bureaucracy starts to topple? What can you do when a pyramid begins to slide inescapably off of its foundations?

Really just one thing: get out of the way. Then, after the dust settles and the bodies are collected, build a better one that doesn't allow so many stupid people so much power. Eventually they'll find a way (as stupid people always learn how to ruin everything), but hopefully not until after you're dead.

JetSetArnett Out.

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