People in general are highly suggestible. Advertise an overpriced tech toy to them and tell them they must have it if they don't want to look like poor plebs and they'll hit the Apple store in droves......unless they've got the New York Times on their other shoulder, or CNBC, or even Fox News doom-and-glooming to make Biden look bad. Tell them they're going to lose their house and job and omelettes are going to cost a hundred bucks tomorrow morning at the diner and they panic and lock the doors and board up the windows.Sometimes I wonder, if the media outlets all colluded to tell us everything was great no matter what reality said, could it sustain an economic boom on popular hysteria alone? Too bad I'm not a better novelist to write that story. Free idea, novelists.

People in general are highly suggestible. Advertise an overpriced tech toy to them and tell them they must have it if they don't want to look like poor plebs and they'll hit the Apple store in droves......unless they've got the New York Times on their other shoulder, or CNBC, or even Fox News doom-and-glooming to make Biden look bad. Tell them they're going to lose their house and job and omelettes are going to cost a hundred bucks tomorrow morning at the diner and they panic and lock the doors and board up the windows.Sometimes I wonder, if the media outlets all colluded to tell us everything was great no matter what reality said, could it sustain an economic boom on popular hysteria alone? Too bad I'm not a better novelist to write that story. Free idea, novelists.

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