Topix Underground

I read this:




"Our quality of life is the lowest it has been since the post-WWII boom. It is simply a reflection of the greater economic cycle — What goes up must come down.

The United States once accounted for 70% of the world’s GDP right after WWII when the rest of the world was in ruins. Now that number is about 24%. It is natural as the rest of the world has rebuilt and caught up in productivity, while the US slowed down due to various reasons (Cold War, various other wars, de-industrialization, globalization, etc.).

Explaining this in simpler terms, back then you had more resources divided amongst fewer people. Now you simply have more people (from the Baby Boom and mass immigration to North America), and fewer resources relative to the rest of the world. The size of the cake is smaller and you have to cut more slices, so of course, everyone gets a smaller slice, so therefore, your average quality of life goes down.

As a result, younger generations are making increasingly less money relative to the cost of living, as well as facing stiffer competition for basic resources (wealth, land, education, jobs, etc.). People have to pay more for the same amount of resources. Things become more expensive, and labour becomes more abundant and replaceable as the world economy becomes more globalized. The average, middle-class person in the West is simply being given a smaller cut of the cake. Upward mobility is also becoming increasingly limited."

Nope. I rather die.

I want to live as long as possible because eventually Elon Musk will find a way to upload our consciousness and we will be able to live in perpetuity in digitised form. We can all meet in a cartoon world and be neighbours for eternity. I'm already working on the cartoon me.

Yeah...that's the thing. In the cartoon world, you can be anything. It's like that vr shit with AI.

That machine will make me freak out and probably have a heart attack.