I think the dire prognostications for America are wrong. I mean idk, things have changed a lot, predicting the next century is really not to be done lightly and this will be a low effort post. But I am expecting a sort of stasis.
See, it doesn't really matter if most ppl are retarded and useless. Our economic engine doesn't need hardly any Americans to work. We all work at coffee stands feeding each other coffee on our coffee breaks from the coffee stand. The empire we sit on is what makes us collectively rich, not our exceptional productiveness. This is why forcing Americans to starve and enjoy no healthcare if they don't go out grind some useless job is merely punitive and very dumb, magnetaress. Not to mention highly destabilizing. You see all the symptoms but you just refuse to see what even the neocons have begun to see: "work to eat" is mere ideology and its logic breaks down at a certain post-agricultural, post-industrial, automation-heavy point. There just aren't enough positions of merit to fill. Just look at the dough they've cranked out for covid, and how it turned the stock market into an all-win casino. We are better off paying ppl who don't make $70k or more to stay home and stop crowding our streets doing their poor person shit. And we most certainly *are* being primed for a UBI.
No, we'll get our unrest under control using gibs. Continue to be the main cephalus of Europa. And keep doing empire shit. We do this to keep
our elites propped up, in opposition to
their (eastern) elites, because submitting to Eastern rule would end the vast stratified wealth in the Western hemisphere. We'll get dramatically, vastly wealthier in the next 30 years on robot labor (which might actually enable manufacturing to return to USA), we are talking the ability to do 500x the labor we presently can, then 500000x 30 years later. The pyramid scheme is about to get a series of HUGE bricks laid under it in the coming years. The only thing that would cause it to fall over is to let the plebs starve and get super angry, but political developments prove our rulers are not that ideologically blinded that they would allow that to happen. Only u are.
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] But with UBI on the table, questions about social cohesiveness get taken care of. In fact, our politicians might be smart enough that UBI may come in time to preempt truly harsh times for the unemployed truckers, gas station workers, the 90% of grocery store workers laid off, all fast food employees, all coffee house employees, most (75%+, includes Lulzsect) low-skill IT workers. No big collapse coming, nothing interesting coming at all rly until Southeast Asia goes underwater and we have a 1 billion-person refugee crisis.
I know the robots seem like theyll never come because we have talked about them for so long, but they are seriously almost here. like, vast labor surpluses are coming imminently. Doomsday is just adolescent fantasy for avoiding the grind of a stable, sterile, un-martial reality. Except maybe for climate change, but even that is just another opportunity to juice the economy on a "war footing" and make lots of machines.