Current Events > Will society collapse in your lifetime?

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I find myself wondering this often. When I was a kid growing up, in the state I'm in you'd run into gun nut doomsday preppers who would joke about ammo being the next currency.

We worried about ridiculous nonsense like Y2K. The world seems like it's in so much worse shape today with the polar ice caps melting, global pandemics, economic straits, and bipartisan nature of everything pitting everyone against each other.

It's just become more and more difficult to be optimistic, and I'm someone that has a good job and owns his own home.

Even if everything works out, we're in danger of the sun melting us possibly within my life time.

The only solace I take is that my dog has about a solid decade left, and I think we'll be OK in that time. I'm hoping things hold together through my parents life time.

But my OWN??? My grandparents were OLD. One of them is still alive, almost 100. I will probably live for another 50 years at least. It seems naive to expect the glue to hold everything together that long.

it already has

I feel like we are in the middle of it right now

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No. I think we've gotten beyond the most critical existential threats, like the Cuban Missile Crisis and etc.

Barring a virus/disease that is legitimately game-ending like airborne Ebola (the strains w/ 90% fatality rate), I think we've made it at least unless climate change destroys us.

But it won't, I have high confidence that we're going to solve that problem. Solar and wind adoption alone has significantly outpaced even the most optimistic projections from 10-15 years ago and we'll have carbon sequestration at global scale before long (as a utility, probably for creating fuel sources from CO2 or something, idk)

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I'd say there's a non-zero chance of it happening, but I don't think there will be a total societal collapse.

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I hope so

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Anime avatar + edgy stupid middle schooler reply.

Added to ignore list.

Its going on right now. The upper echelon of society basically has all of the money. The population is way too big, competition for good jobs is through the roof, everything costs more than you can afford to pay, and the wages are so low that people would rather be unemployed than work for minimum wage while the company CEO drives up in a brand new Mercedes every six months.

Ok SMAL

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We are in the beginning stages of it.

The industrial revolution was the prelude to everything, WWII was the point of no return. I would say within 100 years we will be in full blown worldwide crisis due to the economic disparity and lack of resources

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Letron_James posted...

We are in the beginning stages of it.

The industrial revolution was the prelude to everything, WWII was the point of no return. I would say within 100 years we will be in full blown worldwide crisis due to the economic disparity and lack of resources

Then 9/11. Everything changed when that happened. We have officially been in a military-first economy since this happened. Wages went down, prices went up, and weve watched our tax dollars go to them instead of the people who need it (us).

If we can survive this summer we can survive anything.

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Letron_James posted...

We are in the beginning stages of it.

The industrial revolution was the prelude to everything, WWII was the point of no return. I would say within 100 years we will be in full blown worldwide crisis due to the economic disparity and lack of resources

lol dude what are you blabbering about? come on my friend, post less and read more

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073TJBYTB

read that book. stop believing all that bullshit. we are accelerating our tech to the point where we're now 3d printing wood. it's getting close to the point where we'll be able to just print whatever materials we can envision, just wait and see. the tech is moving faster than ever. it's great.

and automation is going to be a great ally

https://moores.samaltman.com/

read this too my dude


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Payzmaykr posted...

Then 9/11. Everything changed when that happened. We have officially been in a military-first economy since this happened. Wages went down, prices went up, and weve watched our tax dollars go to them instead of the people who need it (us).

lol what? there's been a ton of new technology and service ideas that have happened since 2001, dude. we're in the data, tech, automation age. and biosciences too. basically anything involving a computer.

military is basically just a jobs program w/ benefits for people who want that type of lifestyle and discipline, and America does play a global role in that admittedly but who else could? after everything went to shit during WW2 cuz of the Nazis and Commies fucking us up for 50 straight years, America was the last superpower left basically.

Anyway, the military is not consuming more than their fair share. in fact, they need more. Look at China by comparison lol. We have way more firepower and nukes but we should still maintain a healthy distance. military funding could be doubled and I'd be okay w/ a slightly higher tax to fund it.

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