How is your part of the world doing (both current and future prospects) compared to how it was 30/40 years ago? Please say where you are in the world.
Edit- Thank you everyone for commenting. It has been very interesting for me and hopefully for others. If you are just coming to this post please still comment I am still reading them.
Canada
People seem a lot more stressed. This least year people have gotten a lot quicker to road rage.
Since the pandemic I don’t hear any of the hopeful future rhetoric people used to believe blindly (we’ll invent our way out of peak oil don’t worry)
I would say the constant stress that only those making under $30,000 used to feel in 2014 now applies to those making under $60,000
I have a friend who makes about 60 a year and he told me about a year ago. It shouldn’t be this hard…
I make around 60k and I barely can afford to survive. And I have a decent rent (1000$), but car payments, insurance, phone, internet and food all got more expensive. I can’t even afford a vacation anymore ! I barely make it and I think of those single parents trying to get by with less and it breaks my heart. If I a single man with no kids have to skip meals once in a while I can only imagine what those poor kids have to go through.
Marx was right and it’s getting obscenely obvious
I remember reading that he saw communism arising naturally after late stage capitalism, not before. Unless I’m filling in the blanks of my memory.
If you can blame him for anything, you can say that he couldn’t imagine just how bad late stage capitalism could get.
Though I’m not sure if that takes away from his other arguments or makes them all the more prevalent.
He nailed the bigger plot points but yeah, who could have seen the mind boggling scale of everything back then. Technology really amped things up.