People look at Minneapolis and say "wtf is going on here, how can all of these people be doing this shit?" It's because there is simply not enough productive work to go around.

I think on some level the elites know this and use ICE / "Wedge Issue of the Day" to keep people preoccupied and distracted from the deeper issue at hand.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826956&forum_id=2#49620760)

But the combination of technological advancements (IT, automation) and rising cost of material inputs (on a global per capita basis) destroyed all of that.

Elites' solutions have been endless debt issuance coupled with mass distraction events (Covid, Ukraine, now this.)

Optimistically (lol), I think things will actually chill out considerably in time. If for no other reason than populations are shrinking. But it's going to be a painful ride through the bottleneck.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826956&forum_id=2#49620786)

our vitality / energy is looking for anything to be visible / represented in the real world even if it means getting your bald dome blasted off

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826956&forum_id=2#49620783)

ready player one?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826956&forum_id=2#49621094)

Best case outcome, IMO, is for the bubble to pop and force the breakup of huge numbers of value-extracting monopolies. A healthier economy is far more local and much smaller. The "Space Communism" types are almost as bad as the Mega Finance Capitalists. (I am speaking in incredible shorthand here, but I know you get the gist.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826956&forum_id=2#49621113)

https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/archive

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826956&forum_id=2#49621138)

I am a much bigger fan of Fabio Vighi and https://ourfiniteworld.com/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826956&forum_id=2#49621171)

The difference was we didn't have automation and high speed communication to the degree we do today (and have for the last 15+ years.)

To be clear, I know what you mean and it isn't lost on me. The Power Process was replaced by surrogate activities that at least filled time, but now has been replaced by "entertainment" and endless free time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826956&forum_id=2#49621127)

If we were adults then, we would have all been singing the same tune we are now. Many sophisticated people were at the time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826956&forum_id=2#49621154)

The whole Covid bullshit was a means to try and manage this. Obviously I am not the first to say this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826956&forum_id=2#49621165)

https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/percent-of-americans-working-in-agriculture-640x379.jpg

What is the unique about very recent times (21st century) is the explosion of nominal "jobs" that are actively destructive and parasitic. For example, a professional intellectual who worked in, say, Oceanography in 1990 was doing work that was maybe minimally useful to society, but it certainly wasn't actively harmful to it. It's reasonable for society to have people who are experts in fairly low-impact domains

But today, an academic in Oceanography is some fat ugly brown woman who doesn't know anything about oceans, doesn't care about them at all, and is only there to embezzle monopoly money and resources. Their "research" and "work" has nothing to do with ocean science, but is rather oriented toward "how water interacts with black and brown bodies" or something. They're an anti-social hostile actor

In short, it hasn't really been economic change. It's been a change in the actual biological composition of our society. Mostly "achieved" by immigration. Coupled with (anti)-social engineering to put bioleninist political constituents into sinecures

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826956&forum_id=2#49621249)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5826956&forum_id=2#49621266)