Against the Machine: Being Human in the Era of the Electronic Mob, by Lee Siegel

...will all become consumers of 'truthiness', unable to sort real information from opinion, debate from vituperation, truth from spin. We are doomed to become lonely social atoms desperately, semi-awarely reaching out to online entities as unreal as the personas we ourselves project into cyberspace. Our lives will be hollow performances of inauthenticity. Noble democratic institutions will give way...

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The theoretical basis why I will never use a dedicated retirement account, isn't unrealizable.

... to hold for one year at a time. An IRA relies on policy being reasonably stable for decades -- and furthermore is conceptually based on flouting "most money is dumb money". Some days, it even seems that most dumb money isn't even self-awarely dumb money. It's not a bad idea, but one's planning for forced retirement by disability (age or otherwise) deserves more diversification when possible.

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Against the Machine: Being Human in the Era of the Electronic Mob, by Lee Siegel

The theoretical basis why I will never use a dedicated retirement account, isn't unrealizable.