UK isn't much different, depending on social background. If we are brought up in money scarce communities, we've seen events like you described throughout our time in that background. Thankfully I can say I never saw much treachery within our family, and don't know of any. But we saw it happening elsewhere, in neighbouring families, and were wronged by some of those, but what you saw wasn't just American, it is something that has existed throughout history, in poorer circles throughout the world.

My own writing for the past five years has been concentrating on the energy problem that I've known about all of my life. I can't remember not being aware that something is wrong, we are living as if in a mouse cage, fighting over a dwindling store of food.

The world is our mouse cage, the food is the energy we use to do all things.

And the cage has an open top. All we need to do is climb out, to have all the food we need, instead of killing and consuming one another, to conserve every morsel of remaining food.

Solar energy is the only actual energy source, and to have it, we have to change the way we do business, all business.

We have to pay people to relieve their need to commit crime. Then no law enforcement is needed.

We have to pay people to relieve their need to draw revenue from others that ties them into using energy they don't want to use.

We have to pay people to not have to work in jobs they don't want to do.

We have to pay people to not have to use energy they don't want to use.

This is all about giving, nothing about only giving on condition of return.

There are two ways of obtaining our energy.

When we obtain it by extraction, the effort of extraction propagates all the way through every economic activity like a chain, because the energy is needed to do all things.

In effect, everyone receives a bill for that extraction, one way or another it propagates to every financial debt, every deal done.

The second way is to receive it directly from the sun, before nature does any work with it on Earth.

In that form, we receive it with no effort of extraction.

It is donated to us.

But it is still energy, just as useful as any from Earth, in fact better, because like nature we can use it without generating any pollution.

So it has to be valued, to be most useful.

But it isn't, because valuing it correctly means issuing money reflecting it, every Joule of it, for free, with no expectation of return, because that is how we receive it.

We saw that happen in the US, when $4Tn per month was issued per month, equivalent to $10K dollars per head, per month, for every one of the 300 odd milliion people in the US.

The only time oil ever went negatively priced happened just then, along with whole stack of other surprising good results.

It sounds insane that the dollar value itself even went up in that time, but it did.

We can understand why this happened, when we take into account that there was already un-monetised solar product, accumulated to that time.

Since then it has scaled up considerably, and will continue to do so, because it is physically the only actual source of energy.

The reason why the dollar is slipping now, is that it stopped reflecting solar product being recieved, when the issue of it was stopped.

Nature is forcing our hand, like an expert chess player. She is at check, with one move to mate.

We have no choice now but to begin again issuing massive stimulus, to all people, as more and more go bankrupt due to the prices of all things created by energy escalating exponentially to what is infinity, since the barrier to more capital energy use is physical, it can't be gotten around, no amount of snake oil, or political maneuvering, or waging of war, or killing of people can change the trend of this, it is a physical law.

I think it is important to educate everyone about this, it is something that benefits everyone, rich or poor, the only way to avoid imminent extinction, and it isn't bad, starting at $10K per head per month, increasing thereafter until parity is reached between actual solar product realised, and money issued, guaranteed forever, isn't bad at all I think.

When we see this, we realise what the "End times" really means. It is now. We are faced with this choice, take it or leave it.

Leaving it, means extinction.

https://eric-bott.medium.com/the-reason-why-degrowth-is-not-what-is-needed-4416025899a2