Your fix for technology enabled social distance was more technology.
I love it.
Perhaps social media has done that to some people. But I still see my neighbors out in their garden, and even outside with musical instruments. My musical friends come over and play outside with me. I garden alone because socializing over everything is insane to me.
I disagree there’s a real problem.
Re: people living at home still.
That trend was there before social media and COVID. Along with women having kids later, and adults finding career success later.
The economic math always points to the gerontocracy locking up capital, and of course their generational peers in government refuse to use their legislative powers to do anything but hand sacks of capital to their buddies, who then point us toward shovels.
This isn’t magic. We know where the problem is. Believing we need to import another fad for people to consume is ridiculous.
I agree with you, but I'm not sure we're aware of this problem as a society.
People still think that people making 6 figures are the elite and cheer every time a progressive income tax targeting someone marginally richer than them is introduced by their government.
They are not the enemy, they're not the people lobbying the government so their business can make extra millions or avoid paying taxes with loopholes.
The political discourse always ends up on some hot issue backed by group identity (whether it's minorities, poor people or some other kind of victim).
I don't think the government will ever be able to tackle this conflict of interest and actually impact the ultra rich which maintain politicians.
I just hope we won't get to a violent revolution and physically killing of the rich middle class (kulaks 2.0)
>People still think that people making 6 figures are the elite and cheer every time a progressive income tax targeting someone marginally richer than them is introduced by their government. They are not the enemy, they're not the people lobbying the government so their business can make extra millions or avoid paying taxes with loopholes.
Every single person in this country that makes more than $100,000 has outsize political clout and the capacity to change things for the better, and simply don't. Your retirement is more important, or your children's education, or your career. Fiddling while Rome burns.
"But the cost of living." What about it? Take a stand. You make $100k, $200k a year. Collapse the property value pyramid scheme with direct action. Throttle your mortgage payments. Throw out eviction notices. Hire gangbangers to protect your house when the police come to throw you out. Organize with your neighbors to build a series of self-governed mini-ethnostates based on the first two digits of your house addresses, where your trashed credit score and criminal record are meaningless.
Clearly I'm halfway joking. I'm not clever enough to come up with a real solution. But to act like making twice, thrice, quadruple the average household income as an individual still leaves you handcuffed is farcical. You all pay too much for necessities and you buy goods and services you don't need, and you use it to justify inaction while 2/3 of the rest of country languishes in sickness and poverty. Figure out what you're willing to sacrifice to make this better for everyone, gather it up into a big ball and catapult launch it at the walls of the establishment. If a few days off work and some posterboard can set cities ablaze, the power of someone with 5-6 figures to burn and the willingness to really do something substantial would be awesome indeed to behold.
And (completely serious this time) don't tell me that people with six-figure incomes don't donate to political campaigns because you do.
> People still think that people making 6 figures are the elite and cheer every time a progressive income tax targeting someone marginally richer than them is introduced by their government
... in the US. The world extends slightly beyond the US of A, where your statement doesn’t necessarily apply.
We need to start thinking about what happens when those people die and our incredibly permissive inheritance laws allow them to pass down literal trillions to... basically a bunch of 50, 60, and 70 year olds.
Especially since a lot of that inheritance is going to be stakes in critical businesses that the heirs are in no way, shape, or form qualified to run.
basically any kind of distribution, trucking(food, medicine, everything else), electrical, water, sewer. manufacturing, agriculture, everything that lets you write your ____ question.
I love it.
Perhaps social media has done that to some people. But I still see my neighbors out in their garden, and even outside with musical instruments. My musical friends come over and play outside with me. I garden alone because socializing over everything is insane to me.
I disagree there’s a real problem.
Re: people living at home still.
That trend was there before social media and COVID. Along with women having kids later, and adults finding career success later.
The economic math always points to the gerontocracy locking up capital, and of course their generational peers in government refuse to use their legislative powers to do anything but hand sacks of capital to their buddies, who then point us toward shovels.
This isn’t magic. We know where the problem is. Believing we need to import another fad for people to consume is ridiculous.