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elAhmo 7 hours ago

It seems like people in power in the US are competing to make as much damage as possible to systems that brought them so much wealth.

rjbwork 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They are the winners. They want to stay the winners. So they are incentivized make sure that nobody else can climb up to challenge them.

joquarky 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Something is coming so it's all smash and grab.

t0lo 4 hours ago | parent [-]

What something?

GolfPopper 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Look at the factors in play:

-8 billion human beings

-the continuing health impacts of COVID

-increased frequency and magnitude of destructive weather events

-global weather pattern shifts

-increasingly dysfunctional governments in previously stable nations

-markets dominated by players decoupled from reality

-a stock market bubble of immense proportions

-the end of the post-WWII order

-an interlinked global economy with very little resilience

-an increasing amount of war

I have no idea what shape the world that emerges from all the above is going to be, but I strongly doubt it will be better than it was. The obvious analogs seem to be the Great Depression and the World Wars.

I don't know exactly what will start the dominoes falling, but the current war in Persian Gulf has a lot of potential to do so.

t0lo 18 minutes ago | parent [-]

My main concern isn't how or if we survive, but who we survive as- the rewriting of what the context of being human is the biggest threat to me- imagine social media but spreading increasingly depressive and depraved social attitudes. We need social buffer- and contentment and contextualising media to see us through this, alongside everything else.

(A luxury i know as it shows i have a comfortable and stable existence)

20after4 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's almost as if they aren't considering the best interests of the public or the government/economy that they are dismantling.

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