This question, posed by someone new, makes it to the front pages of this site pretty much every week nowadays. I’ve been visiting this site for years and it use

This question, posed by someone new, makes it to the front pages of this site pretty much every week nowadays. I’ve been visiting this site for years and it used to crop up once every few months or so but nothing near the frequency it does now. There is something seriously wrong with the state of the world right now. It is of no help to OP by unfortunately I think it’s going to get worse before it gets better. I was reading Ray Dalio’s latest blog post on LinkedIn last night and he thinks we’re heading for civil and possibly global war in 2025. I find it hard to disagree with him. In a way, our entire system is just abstracted violence. People used to kill each over resources so we created this abstract system of companies, money, laws, social norms and dating rules so people could still fight each other but without any direct death. But the deaths are still happening, they’re just drawn out and slow. Various people bleeding your bank accounts dry, forcing you to work to the bone until you either keel over and die, kill yourself through drugs, or accumulate enough resources to retire from the game or become one of the exploiters yourself. Eventually we reach the point we’re at now where the abstractions can’t hold back the grim reality. Too much power and greed accumulated at the top of the pyramid means the game starts to become physically unplayable for too many people. What happens when the abstractions collapse? Back to Hobbesian savagery. This would be bad enough if it was just internal strife but throw in conflicting super powers and climate change on top and we’re looking at WW3. Things have gotten so bad I don’t see a world in which it doesn’t happen now other than if we get some serious reform across politics, media and enterprise. To OP, I would say take some time to rest, revisit things you used to enjoy, then find a job you can tolerate doing in a town you can afford to live. It may mean doing something you never thought of doing and moving somewhere you never saw yourself moving a few years ago. I am planning on doing the latter next year. Ray Dalio article for anyone interested: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/changing-world-order-approaching-stage-6-war-ray-dalio https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/changing-world-order-approach...