> hope all that stuff we bought with $36T was worth it

No need for past tense. We’re currently in the most intense—the biggest, most beautiful, one might say—phase of deficit accumulation in American history.

Thankfully we're getting all this cool stuff. You know like... actually what are we getting?

More debt!

A sizeable chunk, probably around half, of what we bought with that $36T was net worth for people like Bezos and the Kochs.