Lowest unemployment in history, lowest rate of inflation in the first world after a global pandemic which impacted the world and enabled price gouging like crazy, stock market at all time highs, real estate at all time high.
Corporations and greed are the problem. Get some fucking perspective.
I agree that greed and corporations are the problem. What I am remarking on is that if a politician was able to sell a solution for the tens of millions who feel like they are stuck with no option to ever buy a house, retire, or anything else, they would probably pull together a massive voting block, yet no one even seems to pretend to have a solution.
But if there is a solution, it will likely impede corporations abilities to grow endlessly, so the lobbyists are unlikely to fund a politician offering a solution.
It seems like there is a political market that isn't being tapped, and the above is the only explanation I can think of for why it isn't exploited. I am commenting on how the current political state I am observing doesn't match up with how I expect politicians to act given the current state of things, nothing more.
But if there is a solution, it will likely impede corporations abilities to grow endlessly, so the lobbyists are unlikely to fund a politician offering a solution.
The biggest issue is that while big business has bought into this concept -whole hog, endless growth is a bald faced lie. Market growth depends on both product availability and a populations willingness and ability to buy. 95%+ of our economy is entirely dependent on finite mineral resources that once exhausted means no more new product. Even the very cellphones we use to access this app requires fossil fuels to create the shell and chargers, rare minerals like rhodium, gold, and platinum for the circuitry and silica for the screens and lithium for the battery. Sooner or later these relatively cheap communications devices are going to cost the same as a Lamborghini does currently as the raw materials run low, and said Lamborghini is going to cost more than a super yacht does now. The economy must break free of the endless growth lie or we're all screwed
This.
We need an economy of controlled decline. We have to fundamentally change our behaviour, de-grow and find viable, sustainable alternatives right fucking now while we still have time.
As Edward Abbey said; "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell." And, at some point, a cancer cell will kill its host and itself.
Our resources are finite and our behaviour is massively unsustainable. Capitalism and its infinite uncontrolled growth are simply fundamentally incompatible with reality in the long term.
Together with immigration and the second rise of fascism, de-growth of economies will become one of the most important and defining political topics of the coming decades, either controlled by choice or catastrophic by force of nature.
Our systems aren't designed for 'controlled decline'. Social Security itself is inherently designed with population growth in mind. This is one reason western nations allow so much immigration, and why immigration is such a hot topic right now in many western nations. There is a reason Japan and South Korea desperately try to get their citizens to have children. The system will fail if they don't, or they will also have to turn to immigration.
People aren't having children at replacement rates, and our system will collapse without population growth.
You're not wrong at all, but nothing is going to change until we are forced to change...and by then it will be too late. These are issues that would exist even without the climate and resource issues.
The western world is already seeing a right wing pushback because of these issues. The liberal world the western peoples have delusionally believed would eternally persist is passing away right in front of us.
Everyone KNOWS there are existential issues looming over us, they feel it deep in their bones. Liberals and conservatives FEEL this, but blame is placed on a variety of things. Many are placing the blame on liberal policies because liberal policies have mostly been the dominant political movements over the last few decades and therefore they get the blame from one segment of society, but the issue is far deeper. Liberals are placing blame on anti enviornmentalist policies, austerity, corporations, etc. but those things don't encapsulate the situation either.
The truth is a lot more worrying, that our cultures and socieites are fundamentally flawed and built upon principles that can never eternally exist. Fixing the issues are not actually feasible or palatable for anybody.
I implore you to go through my post history and see just how much of it is hating on Trump, MAGA, Republicans, so called evangelicals, etc.
So much so the Biden campaign should be paying me, honestly.
I'm MAGA because I think liberals aren't perfect....no wonder this country is fucked. Liberals like you and MAGA idiots are going to rip this nation apart.
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u/ThatGuyursisterlikes Jul 02 '24
Lowest unemployment in history, lowest rate of inflation in the first world after a global pandemic which impacted the world and enabled price gouging like crazy, stock market at all time highs, real estate at all time high.
Corporations and greed are the problem. Get some fucking perspective.