But the same tools can be turned the other way. Speculation in currencies, for example, has become worldwide. Moguls can bring down nations. Yet such speculation can also start a snowball effect that may threaten Wall Street itself, as almost happened a year and a half ago. This sum is not connected in any way to the actual production of goods.
Cybernauts can strike it rich at the start of the day and wind up, at sundown, shirtless.
Nor will they be the last. Wherever it is defied, the US will have to initiate warfare - not only to keep order, but to maintain its stance as world financial policeman. On the other hand, the unjust distribution of resources will ever breed resentment. The American regime is not a truth engraved in stone. As long as it attempts to impose itself, it will encounter resistance.