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?
yeah it’s not just us paying rent on our living space. the pizza place pays rent, the grocery store pays rent, the store at the mall pays rent (and the mall itself might pay another layer of rent) etc. the farm that grows your food might be paying rent to bill gates.
ugh yeah that too, there are so many levels of everybody just being fucked to death