I say we are overall better now then the 90s, a lot of developing countries have gotten much better since then, China, India has made some progress and most developing countries in general would much rather be alive now then the 90s
11:45 I have no idea what economists are smoking when they say that I need work to give my life meaning. Sitting in a dull office everyday for 8 hours while being watched to see whether I am being productive enough, contributes to stress, lack of exercise and poor mobility. It's why people feel uncomfortable doing basic tasks like putting on their shoes and socks. It is the stuff I do outside of work that makes me fulfilled: spending time with my family, drawing, playing the piano, working out, reading, etc. but none of these things have an economic benefit. A meaningless life is imposed on me by economic necessity, I suspect because most of the economic benefits that Keynes predicted is going to the C-suite and shareholders. I would much prefer Keynes' vision of a 15 hour work week.
I’m with you 100%. Work sucks and I could never have it be my purpose or meaning in life, the moment I was in a position to not work I’d tell my boss to go f*ck themselves and never look back. I too play piano and play to a high standard but I’ve never wanted to turn it into a job as it’s not why I do it. Plus, trying to make a living as a pianist means spending 99% of your time teaching and 1% playing. I think it’s sad that this is the world we’ve built for ourselves and are willing to destroy the planet we call home and trap everyone at work all the time pretending that’s anything like a real purpose in life. To think of the economy as a thing unto itself rather than just part of society is delusional, it’s crazy that we serve the economy like its god.
Hi Fustilarian, I do understand what you are saying but there is an underlying problem, this relates to definitions and titles, the fact that what so many people get saddled with is called 'work' does not make it so, as with the word science it is an active verb not a title, you bare only working when you are doing something productive just as a scientist is only a person who is applying scientific methods and only while they do so. One quite easy way to identify 'real' work is simply by assessing the satisfaction derived!, the natural feedback loop that comes with human activity creates a number of metabolic pathways that include the release of substances such as endorphins, these come with any physical activity but are increased when the person thinks that what they have done has real value. For the life you are living to be generally satisfying we need to be able to engage effectively in a range of activities of differing types only some of it described as work, for best effect a nore or less random cycle of behaviour works best!, the less you think you know about what you are going to do next the more free you are to fully engage with whatever it turns out to be, if nothing else humans are among the most adaptable life forms on the planet!. Cheers, Richard.
rationing was last in place in 1954. Boomers are the generation born up to 1964. There’s a whole decade of births AFTER rationing and you can’t tell me a boomer remembers rationing when they were a tiny child. You’re talking nonsense.
I've been alive for 40 years and the fundamentals are somewhat the same. We get up, brush our teeth, shower, go to work, eat food, interact, exercise, consume entertainment, poop, sleep, repeat. Maybe it'll still be the same in 2124.
With all due respect, this isn’t really the ‘good life’ for all, but it is simply one mode of many different possible ways of life which has been most normalised and unchallenged.
I am mostly worried about environmental collapse. We are experiencing a Sixth Extinction with biodiversity plummeting. Our oceans are acidifying because of pollution and climate change. Insects, small mammals and birds are disappearing even in rural areas. The natural world is becoming unstable and we don't even know at what point it will become impossible for humans to survive, yet we continue to kill off all the species that hold this delicate web together. I fear when we finally see what is happening, it will be too late.
You are right to worry, we are clearly moving to uncharted territories, I think we are approaching times where governments will have to take drastic measures to avoid the worse of climate change. I think that when we reach the 2C (somewhere around 2050) of warming, things will get pretty rough. Some countries will probably be hit so hard that they could collapse, I think life could become impossible in the south and west part of india, pakistan south east asia, central america.
a lot of the food inflation we have seen is caused by crop failure due to extreme weather, this will only get worse as temperatures rise. People will remember inflation with nostalgia when they are starving. As for the loss of nature, it's a trillion times worse as the destruction of every piece of human art.
Can't get a dentist, been waiting 3 months now for an MRI. Grew my own tomatoes, fed us and the neighbours for 3 months. Winter storms like we had never seen before and associated power cuts.This was 2024.
Hard to see with all the debt and no growth how it can get better. Let alone the unemployment, pension liabilities, massive state, immigration and falling birth rate that theres any way not to decline. Convince me otherwise ....
I do think climate change, ecological collapes, and pollution are very big limiting factors that were not emphasised enough in this video. I suspect all previous civilisations thought things would keep getting better right up until they didn’t!
We are a care home with a nation state attached to it. We need to stop the triple lock and excessive healthcare interventions for the elderly. We just cant afford it without ever increasing taxes which are already way too high
@ruslancelins1851 totally agree. We need to make uncomfortable choices urgently but this political class only think in 5 year cycles. I see no end to it. I would suggest reducing income tax by 5% per child.
Interesting video, however I'm raising a glass to life being better in 100 years! In context, the UK is the fourth largest trading nation and second largest exporter of services as a post industrial information and knowledge economy in 2024! In fact, in relative terms on a lower percentage of the total global population of 0.81% in 2024, life is better for the average British citizen today for increased productivity and living standards 🎉
In the USA, eliminating electric costs or heating bills would not lead to any improved standard of living, people would simply use the extra monthly savings to bid house prices up the equivalent more expensive. We have seen this many times as various prices have reduced.
In large urban clusters like NY, London, Paris, Tokyo, etc, where demand is growing, no doubt. In more sparsely populated areas, not necessarily, especially if population collapses and replacement migration does not (hopefully) take place.
35% pay rise for workers when the population halved. Who would have thought living standards would improve with less people in our country. Hmmm I wonder what we could learn from that today 🤔
Resource scarcity is being accelerated by Net Zero for the west. Reduced consumption will ensue and lower quality of life will be the outcome. Quality of life peaked in 2000 in the west.
The soaring world population is a disaster. Fewer people means more food to go round. Less competition means less stress, less pollution, fewer clogged roads, fewer high-rise apartments (everyone to have a garden), more nature, cleaner seas, skies, and rivers. It's a no-brainer. No politician in any country would ever let it happen. Nor would any mainstream religious leader. They would have the full support of the world's elites who live outside the system in every country. They fear loss of power, loss of money, loss of control.
Yes I agree a smaller population will be better for the world. The UK seemed to function well when the population was 60 million, now it has gone past that public services and housing are struggling to keep up.
12:30 Some of these illnesses have probably become more common because people simply live longer lives, and are therefore more likely to develop conditions associated with old age, such as dementia. They are also properly diagnosed these days, instead of being brushed off as the person becoming senile. The falling life expectancy in the US probably has a lot to do with the recent astronomic increase in drug use, combined with a lack of affordable health care.
People are developing chronic illness at much younger ages than they did in the past. For example, the number of children with type 2 diabetes is skyrocketing. Also things like autoimmune disease which typically hit in your 20s, are also skyrocketing
@@VincentRE79 ultra processed food is a big culprit but there's also the lack of exercise, lack of sunlight exposure, lack of socializing, phone addiction. All of these play a role in health.
The effects of extra electromagnetic radiation produced from communications is still not comprehensively understood and likely an influence on life expectancies.
The rise of neoliberalism across the Western World is seeing a surging wealth inequality and surging asset prices. An increasing proportion of GDP goes to the wealthy and the poorest increasingly struggle. The prospect of a career for the young is increasingly difficult and many find themselves in volatile, unstable work and even renting a property is problematic. Starting a family is near impossible and we see a declining birthrate. The declining birthrate can be compensated for through immigration but if this is blocked then a declining work force may have to be handled through a further delay in the retirement age. Technology may help but in the past, most of the benefits of this have gone to the wealthy. Unless the current neoliberalism trend can be reversed so that wealth inequality is reduced then the prospects for the majority of the population in the future is likely to be pretty grim.
Well put , the super wealthy have been so successful in shifting attention away from themselves, and have successfully turned the working class against each others, the middles are busy blaming the working classes for lack of progress . And the working class are busy blaming the poor and the immigrants for everything . No attention or questions about inequality is directed at the big corporations and the super rich. If this doesn’t change, there is zero hope for us .
Our birth rate has been in the disaster zone for decades now, this could have actually been turned around over a long period of time and kept our population stable. The establishment however went down the route of mass immigration, which solves a few problems and creates a boat load of others.
Increasing birth rates comes with its own problems, namely the destruction of the environment as we try to give more and more people a high standard of living. The 8 billion people on earth is already too much.
Technology has always primarily benefit the small number of people who own it. That will not change. The rest of us need to keep working to earn just enough to keep demand for useless goods and services alive. Otherwise the economy would collapse.
The comparative graph of “on disability” status across countries suggests that too-generous benefits may be at least in part the cause. Live on benefits with mum & dad and go down to the pub with your mates.
Predicting the future is an impossible task, too many things are just unpredictable, now some trends are inescapable, aging of population, global warming, loss of biodiversity. We have problem to imagine a post growth society yet history show that humans adapted to all kind of environments and hardships though some periods were pretty harsh like the 14th century and the period that followed (Black death, Little ice age, Constant state of war in europe)
Interesting that before the Industrial Revolution factors of productions were relatively static with land and the output of land being immobile and agricultural workers tied to the feudal landlord's estate - not until agricultural science benefited from the Industrial Revolution with steam, hydraulics and modern fertilizers that land output could be maximised. Shame all the wealth from the Elizabethan golden age of New World conquest was still sequestrated into the hands of monopolies or the income from the Dissolution of the Monasteries was wasted by Henry VIII that it was not until the Age of Enlightenment with a few enthusiastic aristocracy and the middle/merchant class members that enterprise innovation-based growth looked up. Still, equality was a long way from most 'rulers' minds.
Lots of conflicting narratives here... On the one hand we're told that technology will render many of us obsolete and there will be no jobs. On the other that will afford us far more leisure time. Again, on one hand, we're told birth rates are plummetting and the population is aging so there aren't going to be enough of us to fill those jobs in future. Similarly, we are told that there aren't enough of us to fill those jobs so endless unchecked immigration is the ONLY answer to this problem. The truth, I'm sure, is out there. It's just I haven't yet divined what it is yet. Have you?
Yes, the spending power of the average wage has fallen over the last 25 years and we have 7 millions non working adults Yet, we have net immigration of 500,000+ a year , year in year out. Are they doing it deliberately , to keep wages down ?
Largely thanks to the fiat currency system born of 1970 the rich are getting richer and the poor, by design, are getting poorer in relation to them. That relativity IS important. No matter what anyone says. We live in a world where socialism, courtesy of the nation state, is the preserve of the rich and where the useful narrative of 'capitalism' is reserved exclusively for the poor.
Gdp per capita is nothing saying number... oh the economy grew... well nothing in my life grew maybe my lack of energy grew hahaha... just because some artificial numbers improved doesnt mean anything to current young generation
Overpopulation bi migration, some supper rich, meny very poor people, natural selection is back, novel viruses und bacterias, drug's everywhere. Future I seen in mine dream.
yes we can fly here and there for 15 pounds... well do we? I didnt flew anywhere... i just save money... to get that house one day maybe... i dont care about baterries... or cheapest wash machines.... nope im still trying to get my own roof over my head... so did we really improved? we dont have to clean our rooms we have vacuum cleaners... great cuz im laying in my bed tired from my job not even caring about mess around... is that really a progress? well if it is im scared where were progressing
I think things will be great in 100 years. But in the short and medium terms, they'll be dire. It's like posing the same question in 1890. That's where I think we're at. 1990 was brilliant. 1900/1910/1920/1930/1940/1950 were not.
Why do you think work wont decrease of stop if AI and robots become as capable in every way as humans? Because in the past, when we didn't have this technology, work time didn't decrease? That doesn't make much sense. You can't just assume that the future will be like the past, and that nothing ever changes.
You fail to mention the impact of mass migration and native European population replacement which will shift significantly society's moral standards back a few centuries.
The comparative graph of “on disability” status across countries suggests that too-generous benefits may be at least in part the cause. Live on benefits with mum & dad and go down to the pub with your mates.
we peaked in the late 1990s, been downhill ever since.
Civilisation could progress further but greed and the darks sides of human nature have taken over so enjoy the downfall
Something happened in the 90s........
I would say 2005 was the peak, just before the financial crisis.
I say we are overall better now then the 90s, a lot of developing countries have gotten much better since then, China, India has made some progress and most developing countries in general would much rather be alive now then the 90s
I would say 1978, but I broadly agree.
11:45 I have no idea what economists are smoking when they say that I need work to give my life meaning. Sitting in a dull office everyday for 8 hours while being watched to see whether I am being productive enough, contributes to stress, lack of exercise and poor mobility. It's why people feel uncomfortable doing basic tasks like putting on their shoes and socks. It is the stuff I do outside of work that makes me fulfilled: spending time with my family, drawing, playing the piano, working out, reading, etc. but none of these things have an economic benefit. A meaningless life is imposed on me by economic necessity, I suspect because most of the economic benefits that Keynes predicted is going to the C-suite and shareholders. I would much prefer Keynes' vision of a 15 hour work week.
I’m with you 100%. Work sucks and I could never have it be my purpose or meaning in life, the moment I was in a position to not work I’d tell my boss to go f*ck themselves and never look back. I too play piano and play to a high standard but I’ve never wanted to turn it into a job as it’s not why I do it. Plus, trying to make a living as a pianist means spending 99% of your time teaching and 1% playing. I think it’s sad that this is the world we’ve built for ourselves and are willing to destroy the planet we call home and trap everyone at work all the time pretending that’s anything like a real purpose in life. To think of the economy as a thing unto itself rather than just part of society is delusional, it’s crazy that we serve the economy like its god.
Hi Fustilarian, I do understand what you are saying but there is an underlying problem, this relates to definitions and titles, the fact that what so many people get saddled with is called 'work' does not make it so, as with the word science it is an active verb not a title, you bare only working when you are doing something productive just as a scientist is only a person who is applying scientific methods and only while they do so.
One quite easy way to identify 'real' work is simply by assessing the satisfaction derived!, the natural feedback loop that comes with human activity creates a number of metabolic pathways that include the release of substances such as endorphins, these come with any physical activity but are increased when the person thinks that what they have done has real value.
For the life you are living to be generally satisfying we need to be able to engage effectively in a range of activities of differing types only some of it described as work, for best effect a nore or less random cycle of behaviour works best!, the less you think you know about what you are going to do next the more free you are to fully engage with whatever it turns out to be, if nothing else humans are among the most adaptable life forms on the planet!.
Cheers, Richard.
There are many jobs that aren't office jobs.
We have to keep working to keep demand alive for things we don’t need. Otherwise the economy would collapse .
People who say this are just scum who find meaning in their job but are too selfish to realise that many other people don't.
Here in Zambia, solar isn't just a choice it's a necessity, currently experiencing widespread power rationing
It peaked at Boomers, they hit the sweet spot, now the rest of us are paying the price
You can't blame that generation, they had experienced the horror of WW2.
@VincentRE79 That was their parents not Boomers
@@buntyjoy1800 Really meant what the tough times they experienced growing up after WW2, rationing and poverty etc.
@VincentRE79 That was more the silent generation.
rationing was last in place in 1954. Boomers are the generation born up to 1964. There’s a whole decade of births AFTER rationing and you can’t tell me a boomer remembers rationing when they were a tiny child. You’re talking nonsense.
I've been alive for 40 years and the fundamentals are somewhat the same. We get up, brush our teeth, shower, go to work, eat food, interact, exercise, consume entertainment, poop, sleep, repeat. Maybe it'll still be the same in 2124.
Good for you. Many aren't so lucky.
There will be no work for humans in 2124 all of that will be done by robots. Plenty of time for everything else but money limited.
With all due respect, this isn’t really the ‘good life’ for all, but it is simply one mode of many different possible ways of life which has been most normalised and unchallenged.
I am mostly worried about environmental collapse. We are experiencing a Sixth Extinction with biodiversity plummeting. Our oceans are acidifying because of pollution and climate change. Insects, small mammals and birds are disappearing even in rural areas. The natural world is becoming unstable and we don't even know at what point it will become impossible for humans to survive, yet we continue to kill off all the species that hold this delicate web together. I fear when we finally see what is happening, it will be too late.
Hate to break this to you but it's already too late
You are right to worry, we are clearly moving to uncharted territories, I think we are approaching times where governments will have to take drastic measures to avoid the worse of climate change. I think that when we reach the 2C (somewhere around 2050) of warming, things will get pretty rough. Some countries will probably be hit so hard that they could collapse, I think life could become impossible in the south and west part of india, pakistan south east asia, central america.
a lot of the food inflation we have seen is caused by crop failure due to extreme weather, this will only get worse as temperatures rise. People will remember inflation with nostalgia when they are starving. As for the loss of nature, it's a trillion times worse as the destruction of every piece of human art.
Can't get a dentist, been waiting 3 months now for an MRI. Grew my own tomatoes, fed us and the neighbours for 3 months. Winter storms like we had never seen before and associated power cuts.This was 2024.
Hard to see with all the debt and no growth how it can get better.
Let alone the unemployment, pension liabilities, massive state, immigration and falling birth rate that theres any way not to decline.
Convince me otherwise ....
I do think climate change, ecological collapes, and pollution are very big limiting factors that were not emphasised enough in this video. I suspect all previous civilisations thought things would keep getting better right up until they didn’t!
We are a care home with a nation state attached to it. We need to stop the triple lock and excessive healthcare interventions for the elderly. We just cant afford it without ever increasing taxes which are already way too high
I totally agree. Bring back a family unit, where parents take care of children, so they can return the favour one day, not the state.
@ruslancelins1851 totally agree.
We need to make uncomfortable choices urgently but this political class only think in 5 year cycles. I see no end to it.
I would suggest reducing income tax by 5% per child.
@@sparkymmilarkythe end will come when we run out of money.
@@sparkymmilarkyWhere all these kids gonna live? There's not enough houses.
Yeah.
Attack the privileges of people who paid into the system for 40 years......genius.
I'm 37 by the way before you accuse me of being a 'boomer'.
Thank you very much. Always informative and thought-provoking videos.
A nice optimistic video content, thanks.
Life has been getting wrose since the 1980s. We are heading to armageddon.
Peak civilisation was in 1999, three tenors christmas concert.
It was all downhill from there.
Interesting video, however I'm raising a glass to life being better in 100 years! In context, the UK is the fourth largest trading nation and second largest exporter of services as a post industrial information and knowledge economy in 2024! In fact, in relative terms on a lower percentage of the total global population of 0.81% in 2024, life is better for the average British citizen today for increased productivity and living standards 🎉
In the USA, eliminating electric costs or heating bills would not lead to any improved standard of living, people would simply use the extra monthly savings to bid house prices up the equivalent more expensive. We have seen this many times as various prices have reduced.
Insomnia is also a new disease that has risen in since the middle of the 19th century.
House prices will no doubt be even more expensive
In large urban clusters like NY, London, Paris, Tokyo, etc, where demand is growing, no doubt. In more sparsely populated areas, not necessarily, especially if population collapses and replacement migration does not (hopefully) take place.
As long as we can make it without WW3 I'd say things will be better for more people.
35% pay rise for workers when the population halved. Who would have thought living standards would improve with less people in our country. Hmmm I wonder what we could learn from that today 🤔
Resource scarcity is being accelerated by Net Zero for the west. Reduced consumption will ensue and lower quality of life will be the outcome. Quality of life peaked in 2000 in the west.
The soaring world population is a disaster. Fewer people means more food to go round. Less competition means less stress, less pollution, fewer clogged roads, fewer high-rise apartments (everyone to have a garden), more nature, cleaner seas, skies, and rivers. It's a no-brainer.
No politician in any country would ever let it happen. Nor would any mainstream religious leader. They would have the full support of the world's elites who live outside the system in every country. They fear loss of power, loss of money, loss of control.
Yes I agree a smaller population will be better for the world. The UK seemed to function well when the population was 60 million, now it has gone past that public services and housing are struggling to keep up.
12:30 Some of these illnesses have probably become more common because people simply live longer lives, and are therefore more likely to develop conditions associated with old age, such as dementia. They are also properly diagnosed these days, instead of being brushed off as the person becoming senile.
The falling life expectancy in the US probably has a lot to do with the recent astronomic increase in drug use, combined with a lack of affordable health care.
People are developing chronic illness at much younger ages than they did in the past. For example, the number of children with type 2 diabetes is skyrocketing. Also things like autoimmune disease which typically hit in your 20s, are also skyrocketing
@@i_like_beer-o2f Yes their health is being affected by the price and availability of junk food.
@@VincentRE79 ultra processed food is a big culprit but there's also the lack of exercise, lack of sunlight exposure, lack of socializing, phone addiction. All of these play a role in health.
@@i_like_beer-o2f 21st Century problems,
Regardless, 'the House' will always win.
I have to admit it's getting better, it's getting better all the time...
Gracias... Thanks 😮
British civilization has peaked during the Empire time
The effects of extra electromagnetic radiation produced from communications is still not comprehensively understood and likely an influence on life expectancies.
The rise of neoliberalism across the Western World is seeing a surging wealth inequality and surging asset prices. An increasing proportion of GDP goes to the wealthy and the poorest increasingly struggle. The prospect of a career for the young is increasingly difficult and many find themselves in volatile, unstable work and even renting a property is problematic. Starting a family is near impossible and we see a declining birthrate.
The declining birthrate can be compensated for through immigration but if this is blocked then a declining work force may have to be handled through a further delay in the retirement age. Technology may help but in the past, most of the benefits of this have gone to the wealthy.
Unless the current neoliberalism trend can be reversed so that wealth inequality is reduced then the prospects for the majority of the population in the future is likely to be pretty grim.
This is absolutely correct.
Well put , the super wealthy have been so successful in shifting attention away from themselves, and have successfully turned the working class against each others, the middles are busy blaming the working classes for lack of progress . And the working class are busy blaming the poor and the immigrants for everything . No attention or questions about inequality is directed at the big corporations and the super rich. If this doesn’t change, there is zero hope for us .
Our birth rate has been in the disaster zone for decades now, this could have actually been turned around over a long period of time and kept our population stable. The establishment however went down the route of mass immigration, which solves a few problems and creates a boat load of others.
Increasing birth rates comes with its own problems, namely the destruction of the environment as we try to give more and more people a high standard of living. The 8 billion people on earth is already too much.
I don’t think any modern county has mass migration
Technology has always primarily benefit the small number of people who own it. That will not change. The rest of us need to keep working to earn just enough to keep demand for useless goods and services alive. Otherwise the economy would collapse.
I am quite optimistic as well.
Why don’t we do comparisons from 1960 to now we can’t keep saying oh ye at least we’re better than 4 generations ago
The comparative graph of “on disability” status across countries suggests that too-generous benefits may be at least in part the cause.
Live on benefits with mum & dad and go down to the pub with your mates.
Predicting the future is an impossible task, too many things are just unpredictable, now some trends are inescapable, aging of population, global warming, loss of biodiversity. We have problem to imagine a post growth society yet history show that humans adapted to all kind of environments and hardships though some periods were pretty harsh like the 14th century and the period that followed (Black death, Little ice age, Constant state of war in europe)
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Awesome. Spot on. Things get harder over next 100 years. Ruling class they run it England London United Kingdom say to much appreciated you woyk.
Hope the current government watches your videos to become educated about the real world economics
Interesting that before the Industrial Revolution factors of productions were relatively static with land and the output of land being immobile and agricultural workers tied to the feudal landlord's estate - not until agricultural science benefited from the Industrial Revolution with steam, hydraulics and modern fertilizers that land output could be maximised. Shame all the wealth from the Elizabethan golden age of New World conquest was still sequestrated into the hands of monopolies or the income from the Dissolution of the Monasteries was wasted by Henry VIII that it was not until the Age of Enlightenment with a few enthusiastic aristocracy and the middle/merchant class members that enterprise innovation-based growth looked up. Still, equality was a long way from most 'rulers' minds.
0:14 3,000 a year sounds line a lot for for 1875. You could buy a small house for 3,000 pounds in the early 1970s never mind the 1870s
In today’s money…
Lots of conflicting narratives here...
On the one hand we're told that technology will render many of us obsolete and there will be no jobs.
On the other that will afford us far more leisure time.
Again, on one hand, we're told birth rates are plummetting and the population is aging so there aren't going to be enough of us to fill those jobs in future.
Similarly, we are told that there aren't enough of us to fill those jobs so endless unchecked immigration is the ONLY answer to this problem.
The truth, I'm sure, is out there. It's just I haven't yet divined what it is yet.
Have you?
Yes, the spending power of the average wage has fallen over the last 25 years and we have 7 millions non working adults
Yet, we have net immigration of 500,000+ a year , year in year out.
Are they doing it deliberately , to keep wages down ?
My inflatable woman got a puncture so l wish they would hurry up and invent decent sex robots
Largely thanks to the fiat currency system born of 1970 the rich are getting richer and the poor, by design, are getting poorer in relation to them.
That relativity IS important. No matter what anyone says.
We live in a world where socialism, courtesy of the nation state, is the preserve of the rich and where the useful narrative of 'capitalism' is reserved exclusively for the poor.
Forget about a 100 years time and just talk about the next 6 months. We are screwed
What's the GDP per capita look like adjusted for inflation? It's so sharp upwards in last 50 years due to removal from the gold standard.
Gdp per capita is nothing saying number... oh the economy grew... well nothing in my life grew maybe my lack of energy grew hahaha... just because some artificial numbers improved doesnt mean anything to current young generation
Overpopulation bi migration, some supper rich, meny very poor people, natural selection is back, novel viruses und bacterias, drug's everywhere. Future I seen in mine dream.
yes we can fly here and there for 15 pounds... well do we? I didnt flew anywhere... i just save money... to get that house one day maybe... i dont care about baterries... or cheapest wash machines.... nope im still trying to get my own roof over my head... so did we really improved? we dont have to clean our rooms we have vacuum cleaners... great cuz im laying in my bed tired from my job not even caring about mess around... is that really a progress? well if it is im scared where were progressing
Can we have falling population while retaining the countrys identity? Immigration is destroying the social fabric of Britain
I think things will be great in 100 years. But in the short and medium terms, they'll be dire.
It's like posing the same question in 1890. That's where I think we're at. 1990 was brilliant. 1900/1910/1920/1930/1940/1950 were not.
Why do you think work wont decrease of stop if AI and robots become as capable in every way as humans?
Because in the past, when we didn't have this technology, work time didn't decrease? That doesn't make much sense. You can't just assume that the future will be like the past, and that nothing ever changes.
They’ll just be different….
You fail to mention the impact of mass migration and native European population replacement which will shift significantly society's moral standards back a few centuries.
2:40 yes but the population is not going down. And there is no sign of it doing so any time soon.
The comparative graph of “on disability” status across countries suggests that too-generous benefits may be at least in part the cause.
Live on benefits with mum & dad and go down to the pub with your mates.