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This story is the ultimate example of American__ biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it _ who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can__, because, well, they__e scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
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This story is the ultimate example of American__ biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it _ who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can__, because, well, they__e scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.
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