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Guest, I agree 100%. I'd even take it further and say we need to identify as Humans and behave as if we are all in the same tribe. But that is a tall order, just like trying to get all Americans to behave as if we are all on the same team. We can't even get people in the same community (west/south sides of Chicago) to work together long enough to stop shooting each other. Some of us can even get our own families to cooperate with each other How are we gonna get the majority of American to work together--even if it is against such a serious threat?

Republicans, Democrats, whatever, very few of them are working for us. And by us, I mean Americans, who, by and large are not very wealthy. Identity politics are only creating strife, and will never solve our problems. We might figure out we have power if we work together as Americans. White, Black, Hispanic, Christian, Muslim, Homosexual, Cisgender, whatever.

Many people do quit the game--they have no choice. They can't afford a college education assuming that their primary education even prepared them for one. there is no vocation training in high school, so many blue collar jobs are out of reach and low-level jobs are being replaced by robots and other forms of automation. Even "underground" opportunities are increasingly limited as corporations and governments aggressively move in on drugs (legalized marijuana) and gambling. Sex trades will be the next opportunity. We are simply fodder for the prison industrial complex. We have to take control of out own destinies, but as that research report I posted on Amazon mentions; the creation of new business is decreasing as it becomes more difficult for entrepreneurs to compete with legalized monopolies. We have to make a conscious decision to support our own, otherwise we will be increasingly at the mercy of some corporation, the way the Black Book Ecosystem is dependent upon Amazon today. Right now I see little evidence that we are willing to make the sacrifices required to support our own.