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Seriously, promise?
I and my family will take the painful collapse and rebuild, because at least that provides hope for a better future, unlike today's path, further enriching a few thousand sociopath's ego scores in their race to see who can burn up the the planet for private profit the fastest.
Living under the tyranny of the greed class is just pain by design. Pain in generational perpetuity.
Yeah, seriously. The path is so obvious and linear for society today due to that. I feel like it just gets easier to predict the future, from axioms such as "the rich are powerful and will always try to expand their influence and cement their rule".
It's easy to see that climate change will never be solved for as long as something big doesn't change, wealth inequality will keep rising, it will just keep being more and more expensive to live and own things, working conditions won't improve or may even worsen, automation will put out more and more people out of a job, creating a massive crisis, poor countries will get worse leading to wars or other crises, and ever more commercialization of everything, such as art and hobbies.
At least, unless it collapses/a revolution happens.
This is all a bit optimistic. The collapse of society will have a measurable human toll and may seal the deal on the chance of a better future. Very optimistic to think the resulting power struggle will result in anyone other than a dictator taking power.
but that's all already happening anyways. it's not a risk to changing things if it is a given in the status quo
Happening, hasn't happened. Op is suggesting we just succumb. If I have to explain why that is a stupid notion I'm not even going to start with you.
We've had political, social and economic revolutions before without shit collapsing. Lots of death and destruction though generally. People don't give up power easily unfortunately.