What a nice headline to say that more elderly are killing themselves because their savings have been fed to the bone-grinders and they don't see a way to continue; it's the silver linings that count.
It's because we'll never stop feeling the effects of trade normalization with China that placed the final nail in the coffin of unionized labor in the US, resulting in the poor quality of life we feel daily here.
Are we calling them "self-made" now for strapping some http requests to old, purposefully gate-kept banking systems? Or is it the ones that we allowed to horizontally expand with zero regulatory system to stop them? Or is it the ones who ruined housing the world over? So many useful people.
I think it's more useful to think of "a huge war" as the effect of the cause of allowing nonsensical wealth concentration via allowing the individual wealth concentrators to use the media, the banks, and governments (the nation's militaries) to enforce hegemony at home and abroad through debt and the use of violence to collect. International trade (as it did in the early 20th century global wars) becomes a vice, as indebted nations are divided between the wealthy that seek to preserve the value of their currency by bone-grinding the locals, fascist forces that seek to become the next bone-grinders, and socialists and idealists whom would rather at the end of the day see debt restructured around social welfare. We've consistently only chosen the first two options throughout all human history.
Georgism is the wealth concentrator's "clean coal" solution to housing, their "libertarian freedom." It's an idealogical advertisement for the Lords, letting larger actors liquidate smaller with greater ease.
The US isn't a democracy; 1 vote on 1 square foot of land counts for ~80x the vote on another square foot of land. If it was a democracy, these forever-issues would already be solved.
As an elder millennial, I feel like I've been living in the great depression, merely eased through modern monetary policy to last throughout my life. The depression is our lives.
Well, a force 10x greater than any standing world army stood against US policing and law. The response, instead of revolutionary change, was for the military to mistakenly side with the failing oligarch republic (see also: the reason people aren't joining the military), then about 10k people tried a coup at the capitol with backing from the acting, defeated president, the SS, the Pentagon, the FBI, and local LEOs, as well as the border patrol, ICE, and DHS. Essentially the government and the People are 100% at odds, the media is portraying it as some 50/50 ordeal, when one party hasn't mustered more than 33% of the popular vote in half of most people's lifetimes, and people are aware that they have no agency in their own institutions, making those institutions entirely moot and void. The passive aggression is the precursor to allegedly powerful people being shown how unimportant they actually are; Nietzsche called it decadence.
I'm currently recovering from a grief, depression, intimate partner violence, State abuse, and whatever-the-hell-is-in-nationwide-legal-psuedo-cannabis-vapes based psychosis. Long story short: I sacrificed my physical, mental, emotional, and future well-being as a human shield so my non-biological daughter who I won't see again could have part of a childhood and not develop a cluster-b personality disorder like her mother. To those that don't understand what these people are like behind closed doors, you simply have no frame of reference. There are no words that will allow you to understand; many social workers and psychiatrists are often even fooled into serving as these people's unwitting thralls. Their nature is predatory. They smash mirrors within and without (even posting something public about it like here will summon a small herd of them to cover the tracks with doubt). They have no ideology other than predation, so they follow the ideology of the hour that gains them the most; they wear personalities like hats. It was after being attacked, yet again, that I was DARVOed (because I was actually escaping for good this time, and the cherry on top of these relationships is always, without fail, a DARVO kick-in-the-ass on the way out the door). Then, despite having over two hours of her attacking me over years of time recorded, including her pouncing atop me and snatching my phone on the very day in question, the brilliant detective at Atlanta PD warranted me, and I stayed in the Rice Street gulag where the schizophrenic kid was murdered by police via bedbug consumption (the police there use subterfugal torture methods to "keep people in line" by throwing them in freezing-in-winter, low-to-no ventilation, hot-in-summer, or bug-ridden cells, keeping lights on at all hours, refusing medical care, 30 people bricked in cells meant for 8, kept standing for days, COVID outbreaks in entire cell blocks, standard US prison system fare, torture by any sane definition of the word). It's when I looked down at the homeless man in that cell, the one laying flat directly in the piss and the shit on the floor so he can lay down in the real estate that no one wants, that I said to myself, "yeah, that's where I'm at."
It's after that, I underwent a psychosis so vast that every word, every symbol, every story, every axiom, every fear, every thought, and all of human history amassed into a unified and perfect whole; only after would I come to recognize that what I saw was identical to the ascent in Merkabah literature, Thelema's visit to the City of the Pyramids, Samadhi, and several other analogies for such experiences. Myself had disappeared, and in its place was a sacrifice burning through time like a star. There were only really two forces in the universe, entropy and creation, and the two were yet an illusion still of a singular. Dark matter became simply matter not yet light, returned to the path of least resistance towards supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies, dark energy became simply the remnant left by matter past the edge of observability to continue the pulling, decimation, and return, breaking the laws of thermodynamics that were merely local phenomenon, and creating novel matter in the process, the early stages of which would expand in an accelerated manner that would appear as a bang, but be more akin to a snake eating its own tail and growing.
I wandered in a daze, searching for what I called my fellow "wizards" or fellow autists or fellow disciples, not fully knowing what I was doing or why. I researched Benedictine and Bhuddist monestaries to try to escape the world. So yes, US hermits are very real, we are very noble, and we are fucking livid regarding the state of adequate hermitages. I'm currently in a low-rent studio, searching for minimum wage jobs, so I can pay less taxes to the undemocratic State. "Fully-employed" I'd make 1/4 million a year.
"I mean, at every level, we are racing madly towards total catastrophe under the leadership of sociopathic fanatics. It’s as if some evil demon decided to take over the human species and drive them to self-destruction. Much of the world is trying to counter it, almost all the world, but the United States and Brazil are the extreme cases of racing with dedication towards disaster."
I don't have a problem with surveillance. I have a problem with surveillance under the undemocratic, nightmerican system of goverence with non-existent to weak checks and balances across the entire polis and an outdated constitution.
That said, Bitcoin is a state sponsored pyramid scheme, and only someone riding the coattails of early adoption and espousing permanent oligarch rule through its lack of taxation could ever speak highly of its poor design, replacing centralized banking with a centralized computing infrastructure arms race to the detriment of the world's resources. There, I said it.
Interesting that those geopolitical events, namely the gas-as-economic-subtrate in alleged peril, took place at the exact time conservatism came swooping to the rescue. Almost like US conservative oil tycoons were colluding with foreign nations in the ME to the detriment of our own.
Except they won't because your in a maximized market with like 1000 wealthy people holding all the bags, all trying to cross-extract coins. The dusty old adages of classic economics no longer hold water.
While the tone of this statement may be a faux-news talking point, it is correct to say that the US is importing people to maintain stable population growth because it can't generate a domestic quality of life in which people see a future for their children.
Now is that when the ocean snails begin walking widdershins or during the vernal-republican equinox? If a corporate regulation falls in the forest and no one is around to enforce it, does it make a sound?
What are you on about? You sound like a serf telling another serf to stop complaining about feudalism because slavery is worse off. Be bigger. Think bigger.
Remember when they used to call that like $40k for the house? Neither do I. I'm certain the use of the argument of zoning and Georgian taxation in addressing these issues is being employed to distract from the more pertinent variable of speculation and hording within metropolitan areas, in addition to the Airbnb cancer. I guess the actual humans that still own homes are the only ones that feel like they have a future, the preserved zoo-like animals of the alleged middle-class.
Protoscience or a mix of abductive and inductive reasoning should not be entirely dismissed because it is not yet deductible. Often the process of "knowing" and developing axiomatic systems comes from first unknowing and grasping, and that doesn't even get into the incompleteness of axiomatic systems. We are refiners, we refine; your diamonds come from the dirt and are the next diamond's dirt.