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?
The problem is so many of our elites get taught at US schools and then come back preaching neoliberalism. More countries in the global south are going to face the same problems as the US than people think.
Guatemala is a head scratcher to be sure. The largest economy to still recognize Taiwan
Mi gente what are you doing
But also that’s the type of thing that will reverse in the coming years with the waning of US influence… I hope… Maybe
It’s because our right-wing is so heavily captured by the US thanks to the civil war and the Evangelical missionaries. We even opened up an embassy in Jerusalem.
I think stuff like that will reverse but the brainwashing done by the “educated” elites who believe neoliberalism, car culture, and AI will make our economy the size of Germany is going to lead to bigger issues.