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Jan 19, 2024
#2,756
ToroidalBoat said:
I've heard the hot take that "the world isn't getting worse, it's just changing". Reminds me of that hot take by "MovieBob" that "the Simpsons didn't start sucking, the viewers changed". Reality is that overall, the world is getting worse, even though not all changes are bad. Increasing cost of living, housing getting more unaffordable, rising migrant crisis in the West, the erosion of family values and increasing alienation and demonizing of men, the societal damage done by "social media", etc. The list goes on and on. So I guess many are "gaslit" into thinking things aren't getting worse, they're "just changing" instead (and you may be some kind of "extremist" if you disagree).
They'll say cancerous stuff like "That old world was unsustainable and unfair and based on WHITE SUPREMACY because, like, you're going on cruises and stuff while billions of poor people in developing countries are still engaging in SUBSISTENCE FARMING, like, everyone should be equal and stuff, and it's better for the environment if we're all equal".

They don't quite understand how insanely fucking poor "equal" really is. The global GDP per capita is like $12,000 US dollars. People who think everyone on the surface of this planet should make an exactly equal share from the global economy should be asked how they'd feel about living on no more than a thousand a month. That's what they mean by "changing".
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