$250 and Up? And I Jump the Rails....

 I know I write on the economy from time to time on here...........

I read the other day that the average date in America now costs right at $250. 

Over time, trying to wine and dine a young lady, well, I am so dad-gum cheap, the durn Scotsman comes out in me. ( Scottish are notorious cheap people.)  I would still be a single person today if I had to spend that much on a date, and over time, well, no, just no....

I'd just get a dog and now, a cat. ( Who would have thought I would now have another orange male cat?)

I say this, and the woman I am married to is cheaper than me.....Again, one of those foreordained deals. 

But $250 a date.....Nope.... 

I know inflation has hit everything, and I am waiting for it to really get bad this summer. I keep saying I am going to write a detailed blog on oil and why it is going to jump up in price this summer. In a very quick economic nutshell, the oil reserves are being released right now to keep the price of fuel manageable. 

When the reserve runs out, prices are going to jump up. 

I am expecting this in a June-July time frame.  I seriously look for a situation with oil and gasoline/diesel to happen like we had in the 1970s. Gas shortages, gas stations running totally out. you waiting in a long line to get gas. 

I'm going off in the weeds. Watch AI folks, see if they are centralizing all of these AI Centers in an attempt to control our liquid assets, in other words, your money.  What time, what location, and on what product. I can see you not being able to do things like buy books with certain titles. Control travel, want to go to England, they can stop you from buying tickets. If you are in the wrong place, they'll stop it. 

This will be an extension of what we already have in a digital system on money.  Already, I most of you get paid with direct deposit, pay bills online, etc.....I know I still like using the old 17th Century( for Europe, earlier for China,,,,,) technology of paper money and often use it because, in my mind, I can see where it is being spent and how...And the damn government can't see what I am buying....

But cash will be a thing of the past. I can see it gone in my life. Certainly in your life, at least most of my former students reading this blog.  

Remember this when you think this will not occur. 

" Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely."  

- Lord Acton

Should remind you of something else....... Think about it.......We'll talk about this later if you do not know what I am alluding to....

If you really want me to go all conspiratorial in a blog on AI, let me know. And the thing is, my " children" both of them are way off in the AI world, both with master's degrees basically in AI. But still, I have alternative ideas.....And it scares me to death.