I am aware that the West’s best time was essentially at the expense of the rest of the world - but where can one find opportunity and prosperity of those times today? Was this a great anomaly of history? Is it time to hedge your bets on living out the Chinese dream?
Is it time for the West to accept that what our parents experienced will never exist again?
Will the world overall need to accept that the western living standard of that time will never be reached again? (It’s too unsustainable - for the planet, and because superprofits won’t flow as they once did)
What has actually happened that’s caused it to collapse?
It’s true, my rent is exorbitant. Almost half my paycheck goes to it, and I just have a smal room in a flat share. The kitchen is tiny. Life would certainly be better without the existence of landlords.
Not even just landlords, every “employer” sustains itself in the same way
You go to work. You make a product. You’re paid a small portion of that product’s value as a wage. They HAVE TO pay you less than the actual value of your labor or else there’s no profit to make up their own income.
And THEN you have to pay rent from that tiny portion that you’re actually paid. And give someone profit buying groceries, seeking healthcare, etc. We are literally being nickel and dimed to death, and that’s AFTER a majority of our labor is straight up stolen
True, although I’ve heard groceries are run on pretty thin profit margins - in the UK at least.