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by borgdefenser 470 days ago
It is also that we can't see the counterfactual of letting the banks fail in the Great Financial Crisis.

If all the banks failed we would certainly have a more equal society in 2025.

It is really hard to say though if spending my 30s and 40s largely in a depression would have been worth it just from a personal standpoint.

Imagine instead of the boom of 2010s we had a depression.

Rather intellectually dishonest for a technologist to complain about this really.