Extremes have led to "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" politics -- that said Marco, even with the ridiculous cost-of-living people are still a country mile better off than they were through all of history, apart from several more recent decades. But people are all feeling entitled that they all should be rich nowadays, a premise once only challenged by the bold and nouveau riche - Algorithms, as you say, are complicit in this as you say -- But I think America's $35 trillion dollar debt is unsustainable too, another little problem, if it isn't got under control, there will be more than chaos -- that would play into the despots' hands -- to get to such a point as already reached and be still throwing money at superfluous lavish pipe dreams is demonstration of the corruption that has been allowed to permeate and fester -- Great piece my friend, I'm sure Canadians are more than a little peeved