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I mean to be fair, there's a decent chance we don't end up with Blade Runner but with The Road, Mad Max, Handmaid's Tale, etc. Hanging out in the ED docs' FB group, there are a decent number of docs posting with the subtext that they're going to need their AR-15s to kill members of opposing sociopoliticoethnic groups during their lifetime. And that's in a group comprised exclusively of highly educated individuals in the top 5-10% of US income. There has to be a decent minority of the rest of the US that wouldn't mind society falling apart if it meant they'd get to be on top through force of arms.
I think this is more because the dialogue has become poisoned. Violent revolution is not inevitable, but those who would endorse it speak more loudly and, because our psychology loves fear and outrage, their voices get amplified.
I (and many others here) are millennials and most of us have pretty good lives.
Whatever bad stuff happens, I am glad to have lived through the 90s - possibly the best decade in human existence.
In relation to your 90s reference and the glut of new physicians and physician pay cuts:
You welcome a society in which individuals have to resort to lethal force in order to protect their homes and families? That's whack.
You welcome the complete downfall of society so long as a group of people you dislike has some sort of fall from grace? Maybe take a vacation and rethink this plan.
He’s going to be like Danny McBride in this is the end, a warlord of sorts with Channing Tatum on a leash as a sex slave
Perhaps it's a formulation of game theory. Once a critical mass of people value the harm that others sustain over their own incremental health and prosperity, society collapses.
Perhaps a review of the Cretaceous period where half of all species on earth died?
www.amnh.org
Unionization is the only way forward from here, there is no going back. But to get there, you have to break the 1099 model and become W2s.
1985-1995 was pretty great. Many of the good things from previous decades still persisted and a lot of those social problems had been solved before a bunch of stuck in the past boomers re-inflicted them on society.
Your graph is spot on.
Maybe everything else will be fine. Maybe not. Though even if geologic scale catastrophe happens, only one cell needs to survive to propagate this carbon based life.Perhaps a review of the Cretaceous period where half of all species on earth died?
Mass Extinction: What Happened 65 Million Years Ago? | AMNH
Explore the great change our planet has experienced: five mass extinctions, the most recent of which was 65 million years ago.
i get that every period is unique but let’s chill with the hyperbole. Maybe humans die off. Everything else will be fine.
The need for growth is both the reason for our success and the roots of our inevitable failure. We (Americans) are not designed to be a steady state society. Once we’ve gotten all the growth we can out of the existing structure, we dismantle the safeguards to wring out more growth. The system then breaks and the people that broke it bounce to another area of the economy. Only thing saving us for this long is that we (mostly) create new things to pour wealth into faster than we exhaust growth potential in current sectors.
Related essay that makes concrete exactly how "we've" been "growing" for the past 20 years and how it relates to our present lack of baby food, chiles, etc:
drpippa.substack.com
it's like the girlfriend who swears they "hate drama", but actually love drama.
That’s an interesting take. Can you elaborate?
