Opens your eyes quite a bit, heh? It’s like you start seeing the matrix. Then you think of your friends and family, the “normies”, and realize they have zero chance. We have all become a cog in this advertising machine.

This makes me feel better about exchanging all US index funds in my 401k into International index funds. I may regret this because markets can be irrational for a long time, but it certainly feels like the US is circling the drain. The fallout will impact International of course, but what else is there to invest in?