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Because they were born into it, people forget the US has been in a 70 year “blip” that’s pretty ahistorical and clearly not sustainable. More likely then UBI o
by swatcoder 3y ago
Because they were born into it, people forget the US has been in a 70 year “blip” that’s pretty ahistorical and clearly not sustainable.
More likely then UBI or universal living wages, we’ll just see a return to communal living with shared responsibilities and far more modest personal luxuries: more multi-generational homes, a return of boarding houses and flops, etc
It doesn’t look anything like what we grew up imagining the future to look like, but it’s actually pretty livable overall. Many people already live that way throughout the world, without particular suffering, and even in the US/West most people did until quite recently.
However disappointing to the idea of progress, it’d just be a reversion to the proven norm.
- psd1 3y agoGood point. As a counterpoint but not a rebuttal, places exist with the wealth for single-family homes and pensions to be within reach for almost every citizen - Switzerland, Austria, the nordics. Conditions there are not necessarily replicable in America or my own country. However, a culture of social democracy and investing in the citizenry looks to be a factor, and our countries' prioritisation of minimising tax for the rich and minimising social spend is a pretty good way to prevent this kind of citizen wealth. So fuck us for our short-sightedness.