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?
No. 2008 was the final nail in the coffin for neoliberalism, or at least it should’ve been but the US found a charismatic new face who could carry it further for a while. If capitalism was a functional system, it would’ve at least adjusted itself at that point, but there was no correction or anything and now we’re all trapped onboard this rapidly sinking ship while the boomers who managed to swim ashore are shouting advice that’s at least two decades out of date.
Nah bro just go to trade school. There’s a plumber shortage dontchaknow