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Coming up on 10 years since the public onset of the 2008 #FinancialCrisis.
As a member of the college class of 2008, it was a formative event, the process of making sense of which led me to discover the #coop model via #CreditUnions, get involved in the heady early days of #Bitcoin, & get kettled and almost arrested in lower Manhattan multiple times during #OccupyWallSt, among other things.
A decade later, I've yet to feel a sense of closure & live with the expectation of the crisis' return.
@mattcropp yeah I still wonder had they let it all fail (the financial system) would we actually be better off today or at least in the process of sorting out a better system instead of what seems like a slide into global authoritarianism ahead of the even bigger collapse.
@rbenjamin "Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!" was basically the anthem of the first half of my 20s...
@mattcropp It happened not long after I read "The Shock Doctrine" By Naomi Klein.
The playbook it followed read line by line as the one she laid out for 9/11, etc.
Humans are a reactive bunch, and when unstable or afraid tend to amenable to just about anything.