I strongly agree. Sadly, I am not young, and I am attempting to come to grips with the fact that I will not be amongst the vanguard that claims and develops the illimitable resources just sitting around the solar system, awaiting the first claimant to develop them as they will into inconceivable wealth. At best I can point people in that direction, who may have not grasped the opportunities available, nor the existential hazard of not taking them.

Whether inflation, political upheaval, war, or famine divides the makers from the takers, that divide, as you point out, is growing both in quantity and quality. It is going to become increasingly tragic as that divide increasingly separates some that cannot bridge it from the goods and services they require to live. As I age, it becomes more obvious that it is only a matter of time until I am separated by that divide from what I need to live, as well, because the pensions and medical services that were once necessary to offer labor to gain their services are no longer able to be relied on, as labor becomes increasingly obsolete. It is such personal relationships we have we can trust, insofar as we can trust anything, because institutions, being inhuman and incapable of humanity, will eliminate pensions as they can.

Nothing personnel, kiddo, as the meme goes. As personnel become obsolete, the retired will have to have goodwill to last them, as accounts in banks and corporate retirement plans will be mined by inhuman institutions for whatever value can be extracted from them. This is already ongoing and will accelerate. That goodwill will have to include economic substance as well, because such necessary services as medical care will have to be able to be provided from resources nominal to the task. Thoughts and prayers won't replace aortas. It is difficult for folks to grasp the need to reformulate their retirement plans, and to grasp that mere promises to pay that were formerly bankable will become worthless, because the promises aren't from people they have goodwill with, but from inhuman institutions that bear them no goodwill whatsoever.

On that note, I appreciate you personally making comment here. Can I continue to expect your personal involvement in our interactions, rather than automated text?

Thanks!