Optimism & Pessimism

In my last post in this series, I ended by musing that in reality we are in a depression, that most of the government-led actions to “save the world” have not really helped very much, and that most benefits have gone to the rich and to corporations. Why am I so pessimistic? After all, as Franklin D. Roosevelt put it:

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

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