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Did it result in civil war or WWIII? That's my point. A lot of people on HN see what's happening and assume it'll lead to WWIII. It won't and its silly to think
by drzaiusapelord 9y ago
Did it result in civil war or WWIII? That's my point. A lot of people on HN see what's happening and assume it'll lead to WWIII. It won't and its silly to think so.
It'll continue the "rust belting" of America, where areas that can't compete, won't, and will be dependent on aid from the government. Again, this has been going on for a long time. Just because Millenials have only noticed this recently doesn't change a thing.
This is also why some think some kind of UBI is going to be in the works in the near future. Society can handle x amount of permanently impoverished areas, but when does x become too large? The whole point of things like job tax credits, welfare, unemployment, re-training, local investment, etc is to keep people from civil unrest. UBI is just those things without the pretense that you'll ever get a job. Truck drivers in their 50s who never went to college aren't going to become competitive software developers no matter how much "training" you throw at them.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoDidn't it? I mean, the equivalent of Great Depression across the pond was one of the primary (if not the primary) things that let Hitler rise to power in Germany and eventually to start WWII.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoSomething doesn't have to result in global thermonuclear war to be considered bad, and for us to want to avoid it. I don't want my kid to grow up in another depression. And there's been all sort of arguments (that I'm not qualified to evaluate) that the US Civil War was a direct result of economic conflict, due to the North being a much more economically productive region than the South.