Why does everything keep getting worse?

[zarathu5tra]

TheAdlerian is based AF.

[PepperedAngus]

I just hope our new CCP overlords still allow me to have sex and play pickleball since thats pretty much all I care about anymore.

I am now contemplating which high risk activities I can take up that have a significant chance of death/and or will shorten my lifespan measurably. A man needs hobbies.

[FrankGrimesJr]

2000-2005 were the best years.

Technology was just enough not to take over everyones lives.

[zhengterry]

Globalism and the advent of tech has people too woke.

It was fine when little Samantha felt empathy for third world countries and felt blessed to be where she is.

But now there is a populist revolution that allows people to harbour their anger and direct their frustrations onto the powers at be.

Turn on any news channel, it's literally bullschit actors reading scripts and being conformists.

People and the creators of pop culture are still following the same script that's gone stale pre 2015.

We're taught Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs early in our youth and now the pursuit of self-actualization has a lot of people wondering about morality and asking why's and why not's.

Basically we are living in a lost world.

[Kraken]

What are you talking about?

The post you quoted is me saying that the mideast tribe is a white supremacist group and it's in their dogma to rule the world.

How do YOU fit into that?

My apologies. I read the “that’s you, btw” as in, I was the white supremacist. I guess that’s why I was confused too. I should have clarified that before I responded

[headturner1]

2000-2005 were the best years.

Technology was just enough not to take over everyones lives.

The world I live in now makes me sick. I wish I was capable, I’d live on a self sustaining farmstead

[SoutheastBeast1]

Said every 33 year old ever srs

I actually think it's justified this time though.

At some point things do in fact peak and get worse. Look at how obesity and mental health issues have exploded over the last decade. More and more high school kids are "gender confused" as well. Raised by single parents in broken families. The world is pretty much a sh*t show and OP has a point.


In b4 age 34

[lockdev]

TLDR; The wealthy elite and corruption.

Pure capitalism bookended by laws to protect the environment and monopolies/oligopolies is by far the best economic system in history.

Unfortunately we have an extremely perverse system of capitalism that promotes cheating, exploitation, and corruption. We're really not any better than the communist regime in China.

How many laws are created to prevent competition? We have some of the worst patent laws on the planet. There are also gatekeeper regulations that serve no other purpose than to prevent competition for the big boys.

Why does the Fed constantly act in the best interest of the wealthy at the expense of the middle class?

The wealthy keep us fighting amongst ourselves. Race issues, SJW issues, etc are nothing more than things the elite push to keep us fighting amongst ourselves and not discovering the real issue: Them.

Not sure why, but a lot of people think taxation on the rich is the answer, like somehow that money will be redistributed. Hint: It wouldn't be. Taxation is another tool the wealthy use to transfer wealth to themselves. Think about where most government spending goes. It doesn't go to welfare, that's for sure. Welfare exists only to promote the government. It's an excuse to tax and also keeps the plebs from revolting. Just LOL@any ******* that thinks otherwise.

Want to fix the solution? Burn the elite class down to the ground. If we don't, we're going to end up a serfdom. srs.

[niospecv]

We're in the end days srs

Jesus take the wheel and crash this life into heaven. My body is ready!

[andy0w]

Politics - Starting with the rise of indentity politics under Obamas reign, has turned into an absolutely insufferable shytshow
Sports - Less mavericks/more robotic 'patterns of play'. Also succumbing to identity politics
Music - Used to be 80% groups, of whom each member had significant talent. Take a look at any modern pop chart and it is all solo acts performing over computer music
Movies - Again with the identity politics and agenda pushing. Superhero films bringing wringed for every last penny. Good luck finding anything original

Online News - I've been visting BBC.co.uk daily for years and I've never seen so many agenda pushing articles as I have in the last few years
Social Media - Used to be fun with your mates, now your entire extended family is adding you on it. The less said about the cancerous effects it is having on younger generations the better
Online Dating - I used to get hundreds if matches on Tinder back in 2015, now I'm lucky if I get 2 a week, all because idiotic men are willing to pay more and more and more for things they used to get for free.

In b4 'Jews did this'

People love to destroy, to vandalise and to attack each other in blogs and comments.

The only way out is to invest, to be creative, to care, to help.

Just watching so bs tv show about demons in America. And exorcism. "Paranormal" activity.
People really believe this chit.

[TheAdlerian]

TheAdlerian is based AF.

Saying the truth to yourself and everyone else is the only way out of problems.

[TheAdlerian]

My apologies. I read the “that’s you, btw” as in, I was the white supremacist. I guess that’s why I was confused too. I should have clarified that before I responded

No big deal!

I see what you mean.

Sometimes I'm dashing out posts and could word them better.

By "you" I meant all of us.

[Dirtylocks]

We're in the end days srs

this. we are at the end. time to die.

[TheAdlerian]

We're in the end days srs

We are not.

We were born into the end of this civilization, and that's what we are caught up in.

There will be thousands more before the end of days.

[katya422]

TLDR; The wealthy elite and corruption.

Pure capitalism bookended by laws to protect the environment and monopolies/oligopolies is by far the best economic system in history.

Unfortunately we have an extremely perverse system of capitalism that promotes cheating, exploitation, and corruption. We're really not any better than the communist regime in China.

How many laws are created to prevent competition? We have some of the worst patent laws on the planet. There are also gatekeeper regulations that serve no other purpose than to prevent competition for the big boys.

Why does the Fed constantly act in the best interest of the wealthy at the expense of the middle class?

The wealthy keep us fighting amongst ourselves. Race issues, SJW issues, etc are nothing more than things the elite push to keep us fighting amongst ourselves and not discovering the real issue: Them.

Not sure why, but a lot of people think taxation on the rich is the answer, like somehow that money will be redistributed. Hint: It wouldn't be. Taxation is another tool the wealthy use to transfer wealth to themselves. Think about where most government spending goes. It doesn't go to welfare, that's for sure. Welfare exists only to promote the government. It's an excuse to tax and also keeps the plebs from revolting. Just LOL@any ******* that thinks otherwise.

Want to fix the solution? Burn the elite class down to the ground. If we don't, we're going to end up a serfdom. srs.

Repped.

[InstantLoser]

One of the biggest crimes in a communist state would be not working.

No ****, because Communists are always authoritarian twatwaffles.

[eod8989]

Why is this happening? Literally everyone just talks about the same stuff now days? Even if i go to someones house they are watching the news or a Netflix show or chatting about sports but sports aren't even good anymore they haven't really been good since the mid-late 2000's

[sword_]

Thought this was an EOD thread with the title.

[DoYouEvenNEM]

That's a cliche.

No one has tried it, ever.

Capitalism DOES NOT WORK and you probably don't even know that because you don't even know what capitalism means.

It has been tried and does not work as it's supposed to.

It never will work because rich people and their psychology will not let it work.

Go read Adam Smith and tell me we have ever been close to it.

The current system we have is working. Most of the world's patents and productivity gains are originating from places like USA and Germany. Not Central Asian republics.

Eventually we'll get "Communism" someday but it will be the result of asteroid mining and productivity.

[TheAdlerian]

lmao, this is so full of holes. How are the decisions made for how to design the car? Who decides how much cargo space they car should have? How powerful to make the car? What happens when the engineers disagree? What happens when they all become alcoholics because they have no tangible reason to achieve in life?

"Communism has never been tried" lmao. You're thinking of some perfect ideological state where the realities of human biology, motivation, and emotions don't exist.
No matter how many times communism is tried, there will always be people like you saying, "it wasn't tried the right way". Maybe your dream is for everyone to have neural implants controlling their behaviors so they all contribute 100% towards Glorious Dream of Communism. Because that's the only realistic way it could work. By turning everyone into cyborgs.


Btw the car I posted was an East German Trabant.

Dude, don't be an idiot, I wrote a F@CKING EXAMPLE in about a paragraph to illustrate the point.

I am not writing governmental policy on the misc, it's an example.

In addition, you don't know a f@cking thing about the topic or else you and others would already know what you are talking about and what I am.

What was tried is called "Lennism" not Marxism, so go get a F@cking education before you speak.

[TheAdlerian]

The current system we have is working. Most of the world's patents and productivity gains are originating from places like USA and Germany. Not Central Asian republics.

Eventually we'll get "Communism" someday but it will be the result of asteroid mining and productivity.

That's a moronic response and again, you're another person who doesn't know anything about what you're talking about.

Capitalism is supposed to create near full employment and wealth distribution to all the people from the top down due to constant investment in everyone. So, it's also "communist" in that everyone in the community is selling a service.

That doesn't even remotely exist and no one gives a f@ck about "patents" and your bullish!t because that's not running a civilization.

[TheAdlerian]

No ****, because Communists are always authoritarian twatwaffles.

That is not communism and people who are "twatwaffles" don't read books and talk about politics they don't understand and don't care too.

This is why America sucks and is in the toilet.

America is a bunch of "douche" dudes who never read a book and yet think they know things.

[robreynolds1234]

Everything is not getting worse really, 50-200 years ago we always had wars, major diseases same like COVID were around, absolute monarchy was strong and cruel and brutal sometimes.

Earth was having amazing times in the last 40 years or so, new major inventions were regular, people started to travel lot more, knew there was too much to explore, sports were celebrated highly, hollywood/music/brands/fashion/food culture/video games were always exciting, internet was new. Then came the era of smartphones (its not like the smartphones did it), but from there (2010) eventually everything started to peak out, everything cool became stale, people became more selfish, agressive, arrogant, rude, less patient and stopped caring about each other, everyone became each others silent enemy. Then came the economic recession followed by the COVID crisis which was the final nail in the coffin, now people don't know how to act and what to do in life anymore, they are always hopeless, seems like making money and partying is their final goal, but that seems like a forced lifestyle now.

Seems like a major event or a major technological advancement is near which will completely alter human way of thinking and living and maybe erase all their pains once and for all and take them to a new dimension perhaps.

[Kraken]

That's a moronic response and again, you're another person who doesn't know anything about what you're talking about.

Capitalism is supposed to create near full employment and wealth distribution to all the people from the top down due to constant investment in everyone. So, it's also "communist" in that everyone in the community is selling a service.

That doesn't even remotely exist and no one gives a f@ck about "patents" and your bullish!t because that's not running a civilization.

The market hasn’t been free for a long time. Unemployment was near 0 in the beginning up until about 1900. If you track the trends of unemployment, you can see that it shoots up with government interference. It all started around 1900, when post modernists and liberals started taking over. It really went to **** when they started using Keynesian economics, added the new deal, tariffs, when unemployment went from 10% to 25% and caused the Great Depression. Then, when the welfare state was implemented, unemployment spiked again and we lost our political freedom and the rest of the free market. Those are anything BUT free market ideals.

The free market was a reality and was realized. The invisible hand is proven on a daily basis too. The concepts of Adam Smith are quite difficult to grasp though. I don’t expect everyone to get it, even if they have read his works.

You read a lot about philosophy, but you fail to have much of a knowledge of economic concepts, facts, and history. Otherwise, you would have known everything I just posted and would have known that the fundamentals of Adam Smith’s theories were proven to be true.

[RonaldMcflurry]

One of the biggest crimes in a communist state would be not working.

One of the biggest benefits is----not working.

In a true communist state, everyone is working for the benefit of the population. So, all of the resources are focused on making a quality livable life.

So, if you went to school to be an engineer and you are given the task to make a car, you are doing that for the service of humanity. So, you and the other engineers run the show, workers run things. So, you guys make the finest car possible.

In Marxism they talk about a Commodity Fetish, which is a capitalist obsession with meaninglessly different goods. So, Bob "must have" an Audi because it's an Audi and Fred MUST HAVE a Mercedes, and so on, when they are both quality cars. There is no real difference. So, new cars come out each year that are really no different than the last or next year's etc.

This fetish is a mental illness caused by capitalism. Look at iphones and Apple computers and all of that stuff as an example.

That creates constant waste and slavery for the workers.

In a real Marxist state the engineers would produce a car that makes the best we have look like trash, but they would all look the same and last a very long time. So, there would be no yearly car debuts and you would get another car if yours crashed, etc.

So, workers would only have to work occasionally to produce these and other machines.

Marxism is about stopping slavery to the products rich people make, which are addicitive, redundant, and crappy. So, it's about massive amounts of time off for most people as they are just producing what the society needs.

Not wanting to help humanity in this way would be a major crime, which makes sense.

It sounds great on paper. In reality, the people at the top collude and conspire to oppress everyone else. This leads to tyrranny and totalitarianism. So basically the same end result as every other form of government.

[katya422]

The market hasn’t been free for a long time. Unemployment was near 0 in the beginning up until about 1900. If you track the trends of unemployment, you can see that it shoots up with government interference. It all started around 1900, when post modernists and liberals started taking over. It really went to **** when they started using Keynesian economics, added the new deal, tariffs, when unemployment went from 10% to 25% and caused the Great Depression. Then, when the welfare state was implemented, unemployment spiked again and we lost our political freedom and the rest of the free market. Those are anything BUT free market ideals.

The free market was a reality and was realized. The invisible hand is proven on a daily basis too. The concepts of Adam Smith are quite difficult to grasp though. I don’t expect everyone to get it, even if they have read his works.

You read a lot about philosophy, but you fail to have much of a knowledge of economic concepts, facts, and history. Otherwise, you would have known everything I just posted and would have known that the fundamentals of Adam Smith’s theories were proven to be true.

Um, weird mash up of events there.

In the period from 1946 to 1976 classical ideas were replaced by a new theory, Keynesian economics. From 1976 through to 2008 classical economics once more gained the upper hand.

The First New Deal (1933–1934) dealt with the pressing banking crises through the Emergency Banking Act and the 1933 Banking Act. ... The Securities Act of 1933 was enacted to prevent a repeated stock market crash. The controversial work of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was also part of the First New Deal.

However, most scholars today agree postmodernism began to compete with modernism in the late 1950s and gained ascendancy over it in the 1960s.

I don't know about "unemployment shooting up with government intervention". I do know that unemployment has been variable across time.



Pretty decent write up on what caused the Great Depression:



- reduced demand for durable goods
- those purchasing durable good mainly were using credit/installment plans (1920s easy money, high consumer debt)
- housing was "over built" by 25%; not enough buyers
- drought hit overextended farmers/debt for capital investment
- other countries were in poor financial condition
- stock market bubble

In 1929, stock share prices were running higher than their historical average in relation to how much companies were actually earning (price-earnings, or P/E ratios, above). Corruption increased the market’s instability. Small groups of wealthy men “painted the tape,” driving up prices artificially by buying themselves, only to sell at high profits after other “suckers” bought into the rally. Pool operators could make money virtually at will in pump and dumps, to use the modern phrase for manipulating small-cap stocks by hyping them and selling before the price drops back down.

People knew what was going on and that the players paid off newspapers to print news about companies, but small investors still hoped to ride the prices up themselves and not be the ones left holding the “chop stock” in the sell-off. The impact of pool operators on small investors wasn’t so much negative as random. It was like a game of musical chairs; as long as you had a chair each time the music stopped (had already sold your shares), it didn’t matter that it was just a game.

There's more...

[Kraken]

Um, weird mash up of events there.







I don't know about "unemployment shooting up with government intervention". I do know that unemployment has been variable across time.



Pretty decent write up on what caused the Great Depression:



- reduced demand for durable goods
- those purchasing durable good mainly were using credit/installment plans (1920s easy money, high consumer debt)
- housing was "over built" by 25%; not enough buyers
- drought hit overextended farmers/debt for capital investment
- other countries were in poor financial condition
- stock market bubble



There's more...

This should help make things simple





At the moment I can’t find a graph for the effects of the welfare state, however, unemployment rose sharply after it as well. You can see it a bit in the chart I Posted though.

[LethalGunz34]

I do believe that it will only get worse. California is pushing to decriminalize psychedelic drugs right now.

[LethalGunz34]

And guess who’s going to be paying those corporate tax hikes? Those companies will just raise prices for the goods and services for the consumer.

[wolfofmarkcity]

I think cern opened up the multiverse or is creating negative energy on earth

I can't wrap my head around the sudden changes that happened around 2015

The only way this makes sense naturally is if it took many years but it doesn't add up for all of these changes to take place in less than a years time

The world simply wasn't like it is before late 2014, period

The guy who says the moon landing couldn't possibly have happened think s multiverse portal was opened? Bruh you couldn't be a better troll if you tried. No living being is that paradoxically retarded.