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I can’t tell if this is a stupid question. It isn’t even a coherent sentence.
What are you asking?
How much of it is society is collapsing versus the daily on going of the ruling class was so obscure that they were easier to ignore?
Submitted 1 day ago by Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Steve@communick.news 1 day ago
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Its not collapsing thats mostly the internet being a void people scream into. There is some global crises at the moment but they’ll pass. Day to day most people are getting up going to work, spending time with their families and living life.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Crises don’t pass, they are either resolved or they get worse. Your passivity is not a measure of the labor of those who have resolved previous crises. You are free to stick your head back in the sand, but do not blame us when we can no longer protect you.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Thinking society is collapsing isnt solving problems. Most of these problems aren’t the average persons to solve
MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Suppose you had a co-worker. You both make the same salary, say $75,000/year takehome.
You mention that you are buying a house, and your co-worker says “I wish I could do that. I have too much credit card debt.”
“How much debt do you have?” you ask.
“$600,000,” he replies.
“Oh, my,” you reply. “Well, how did you spend that much so fast? What about your budget?”
“Yeah, I still spend about $110,000 per year, but most of my debt is just interest accrual.”
And that’s the U.S. in a nutshell. Yes, we can get by for another day or another month or another year - until we can’t. And then it all comes crashing down with a quickness.
Look at the graph here: en.wikipedia.org/…/History_of_the_United_States_p…
Notice that the last time our debt ratio got this high, it was WWII. After the war, the financial repercussions were addressed, the money was paid back and we got on with our lives. When it started to spike again in the 90s, Democrats and Republicans worked together and brought it back down.
So, if the debt is to be reduced, we either need to work together or we need a world war. Which do you think is more likely to happen?
Fizz@lemmy.nz 20 hours ago
The world isnt America.
And also why are you using an example of 600k cc debt? 6k debt cc is more realistic and would be easily payable by someone on 75k. Dont get me wrong, the american debt situation is not good but society still moves along while people fall through the cracks.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How much of what? Which ruling class?
Ex: healthcare and childcare is unaffordable and collapsing everywhere because patriarchy refuses to accept that it’s something that once employed half of the population to do and is obviously going to be extremely expensive to maintain so they just expect free social labor to fill the gaps. This is true even in China.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
We’ve been heading towards a time that a lot of leaders knew would require change and reform but didn’t. This has made the required reform to be more drastic, creating greater resistance.
It seems to be so bad that a lot of elites are just betting on collapse without understanding what they’ll lose.