Quote from: TDoS on Jan 18, 2026, 07:21 AMBut if Bear Stearns is your starting gun, I picked a better one for the idea, and here we are....119 years later after my better example. Apparently even larger bad economic events don't cause collapse and you want to pretend a little local one will? Or worse yet....IS? Come on.
I don't peg BS as the starting point for collapse, merely as the starting point for when I began to pay attention to it and chronicle the progress.
QuoteYes, you have said it is in progress. But if Bear Stearns is your starting gun, I picked a better one for the idea, and here we are....119 years later after my better example. Apparently even larger bad economic events don't cause collapse and you want to pretend a little local one will? Or worse yet....IS? Come on.
You are confusing cause and effect. Bear Stearn isn't causing the collapse of industrial civilization, it's one of the effects. A fairly small one in the grand scheme of things, but significant enough to get me curious enough to start paying attention to what was ongoing.
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