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How to destroy a great nation's economy
This depresses both the tax revenues for your own government, as well as the revenue for all local businesses (including your own, if your business is dependent upon local customers!). This can increase the debt load of local businesses and government, causing them to have to waste more of their ever-smaller money pile on interest, and invest less in their metaphorical 'seed corn': worker training or benefits or infrastructure maintenance. Or schools, public health, etc., etc. So both the local workforce and the infrastructure which undergirds them gets run down and used up. Destroyed. This all results in you gradually making your community (and possibly your own business!) ever poorer The cosmic law of entropy (from physics) dictates that once you're beyond a certain point in many matters like these, you can't go back again. In a nutshell, this is what the whole country of America has been doing to itself, via outsourcing and miscellaneous other wage depression schemes, for decades now. If we're not yet beyond the point of no return, we sure as hell must be close! And their vision is becoming a reality: US forces release Iraqi photographer after two years without charge Britons detained in Guantanamo Bay are freed without charge by anti-terror police When will YOUR turn come?
Viruses or bacteria may be at the root of schizophrenia and other disorders I first wrote this up as a strong possibility in my timeline a long, long time ago (maybe around ten years ago). And have used it in many places since as one big reason we need universal health insurance. Timeline page (a roughly 1997-based prediction for 2007): It's proven that some forms of insanity (like schizophrenia) are literally contagious diseases which may be 'caught' in some cases as easily as the common flu (You might note my oldest reference for this item is from 1997; but I added more references as they became available over time)
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