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What if we measured collapse as "proportion of population being left behind"? How have education outcomes changed past 18 months? What about specifically to th
by HighlandSpring 5y ago
What if we measured collapse as "proportion of population being left behind"?
How have education outcomes changed past 18 months? What about specifically to the 95th percentile most/least deprived?
How have health outcomes changed past 18 months? What about the quantiles?
How have financial plans been affected past 18 months? How much worse off are those who already weren't that well off?
How have climate change outcomes changed past 18 months? Will the recent climate action drive meaningful outcomes or is it another power/cash-grab with social utility you gotta search for?
What will be the cumulative effect of all this on people's willingness to introduce human life to the planet?
Human reproductive potential has been steadily declining for something like a century. Have the past 18 months been more of the usual or has the gradient been steeper? How significant of a fertility rate decline can the economic system tolerate be
Basically what I'm trying to say is: as the mean changes, how are the tail ends affected? Is the tail end activity contributing to some kind of feedback loop?
- xwdv 5y agoI think we’ve collapsed. A lot of peoples lives are an endless hell which I see no escape from, they just trudge along because they have some hope but haven’t fully realized how screwed they are. Many people have chosen to stop working all together. Eventually they may decide to all together stop obeying laws. A Louis Vuitton store in San Francisco was robbed blind recently. For us elites life is still somewhat good, but the dominos are falling and we just haven’t been hit yet.
- nl 5y ago> What if we measured collapse as "proportion of population being left behind"? Well then it clearly isn't. Outside rich Western countries life is - on average - getting better. For every disaster like Syria there is are multiple quiet successes across the poorer parts of the world where millions of people get measurably better by 5 or 10%. Eg, in Nigeria, where between 2009 and 2019 average life expectancy increased by over 4 years.