forget about your house of cards and I'll do mine

…We were building a brave new world where the Chinese made things out of plastic for us, the Indians provided customer support when these Chinese-made things broke, and we paid for it all just by flipping houses, pretending that they were worth a lot of money whereas they are really just useless bits of ticky-tacky. ClubOrlov: Social Collapse Best Practices. Caution: depressing.