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Is there any large country that has not utterly destroyed their young people’s future?

by deadbabe 2y ago

ruined 2y ago
global ocean temperature has broken records every single day for more than a year running now
- wakawaka28 2y ago
  What does that have to do with anything?
  - deadbabe 2y ago
    It seems off topic but yea I get what he’s saying, all countries are basically in this mess together because of climate change.
    - janalsncm 2y ago
      It’s a bit reductive. It doesn’t explain the discrepancies between countries. Every country is going to be negatively impacted, that doesn’t mean the problems we are already seeing are the result of climate change. On the other hand it does speak to the fact that governments can’t seem to get their shit together even when a problem is so clearly carved up and served on a silver platter as climate change.
      - wakawaka28 2y ago
        Climate change is not a clear problem, much less one that is clearly due to humans. There are no clear solutions either if it is real. Everyone needs fossil fuels until some actual alternatives make sense, regardless of what hysterical "experts" have to say about it. These same "experts" are probably secretly plotting to kill off or imprison billions of people to reduce emissions.
    - wakawaka28 2y ago
      Climate change, if it's even real and worth worrying about, is a different mess from prevailing economic conditions. That is, unless you think elites are sabotaging our economies and lives to advance some climate agenda. I don't put it past them but I think the economy is more likely screwed for other reasons.
  - ruined 2y ago
    exactly!!
janalsncm 2y ago
It would be a bit reductive to say all countries are the same. For example infant mortality, the United States is nowhere close to the best. Checking other metrics Scott Galloway mentioned, it’s not surprising they are all highly correlated.
candiodari 2y ago
This isn't really what happened. All financial systems were built on the assumption of massive (native) population growth, including of course job growth. When this failed, next up was mass-immigration to attempt to make up for the fact that the numbers coming out of schools can't make up for people "leaving the workforce". Of course, now we find out immigration ALSO cannot cover the people leaving the workforce. Some of it works, to be fair, but too much doesn't, and people don't like the culture being imported. The issue is, by the way, not that growth stops but that we're currently committed to about a halving of population in most of the developed world. But if nothing changes that could easily become an 80% or more drop. There is no way in hell our financial system survives the next 20 years without MAJOR changes. Not going to happen.
gregwebs 2y ago
Is Norway large enough for you? A big part comes down to building up debt that children pay for or in Norway’s case building up reserves that are given to children.

Is there any large country that has not utterly destroyed their young people’s future?

ruined 2y ago

global ocean temperature has broken records every single day for more than a year running now

wakawaka28 2y ago
What does that have to do with anything?
- deadbabe 2y ago
  It seems off topic but yea I get what he’s saying, all countries are basically in this mess together because of climate change.
  - janalsncm 2y ago
    It’s a bit reductive. It doesn’t explain the discrepancies between countries. Every country is going to be negatively impacted, that doesn’t mean the problems we are already seeing are the result of climate change. On the other hand it does speak to the fact that governments can’t seem to get their shit together even when a problem is so clearly carved up and served on a silver platter as climate change.
    - wakawaka28 2y ago
      Climate change is not a clear problem, much less one that is clearly due to humans. There are no clear solutions either if it is real. Everyone needs fossil fuels until some actual alternatives make sense, regardless of what hysterical "experts" have to say about it. These same "experts" are probably secretly plotting to kill off or imprison billions of people to reduce emissions.
  - wakawaka28 2y ago
    Climate change, if it's even real and worth worrying about, is a different mess from prevailing economic conditions. That is, unless you think elites are sabotaging our economies and lives to advance some climate agenda. I don't put it past them but I think the economy is more likely screwed for other reasons.
- ruined 2y ago
  exactly!!

janalsncm 2y ago

It would be a bit reductive to say all countries are the same. For example infant mortality, the United States is nowhere close to the best. Checking other metrics Scott Galloway mentioned, it’s not surprising they are all highly correlated.

candiodari 2y ago

This isn't really what happened. All financial systems were built on the assumption of massive (native) population growth, including of course job growth. When this failed, next up was mass-immigration to attempt to make up for the fact that the numbers coming out of schools can't make up for people "leaving the workforce". Of course, now we find out immigration ALSO cannot cover the people leaving the workforce. Some of it works, to be fair, but too much doesn't, and people don't like the culture being imported. The issue is, by the way, not that growth stops but that we're currently committed to about a halving of population in most of the developed world. But if nothing changes that could easily become an 80% or more drop. There is no way in hell our financial system survives the next 20 years without MAJOR changes. Not going to happen.

gregwebs 2y ago

Is Norway large enough for you? A big part comes down to building up debt that children pay for or in Norway’s case building up reserves that are given to children.