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"content": "One of the core themes of the last election was the fact that most economic numbers are absolute bullshit. <br><br>Go ahead and tell gen z that they are materially better off than the baby boomers. According to all the numbers from the government we've never been better off and all those gen z kids are rich be on their wildest dreams. <br><br>Funny how by more qualitative measurements they're substantially worse off to the extent that postmodern civilizations are facing a near extinction level event because people don't feel comfortable having kids in an environment where they can't even secure shelter.<br><br>If anything, all the graph shows is that much of the wealth of the West has been trickling out to the rest of the planet through globalization. Now if what you care about is global social justice then everyone making a penny more than the poverty line is exactly what you want. On the other hand, for the civilization that used to have a much higher quality of life the fact that someone in Zimbabwe is making a lot more money is cold comfort. A man who ends up living in his parents basement, who is unemployed, who can't buy a home, who can't get married, who will never have kids, that man isn't better off because people in other countries are better off, no matter how many financial products he has.<br><br>I live in a region that is roughly equivalent to the rust belt in the United States and it really doesn't positively affect anyone around me having China make all of our shit, or having a bunch of growth in unproductive postmodern financial instruments such as bitcoin. We went from being a wealthy region with lots of opportunity to a relatively poor region with lots of problems like drugs and crime. You can point at your graph, but the graph doesn't capture realities such as the rust belt.<br><br>I think that there's a good argument to be made that financialization is one of the last steps of the decline of civilizations. Such rent seeking technologies took hold in Rome and were a major factor in its declined. The Spanish empire was one of the most powerful in the world, but eventually it was bringing in so much silver that having that silver wasn't able to be meaningful because there wasn't enough stuff to go around. Today Spain is considered one of the poorest regions in Western Europe. More recently the English empire was so powerful and so widespread that it was said that the Sun never set on the British empire. That empire was built in large part on the overwhelming advantage in terms of industrialization they had compared to the rest of the world. Eventually they ended up focusing much more on financial products, and so today London is an extremely rich City with all of the banking going on, but most of the country is crushingly poor. The French were in the process of a lot of financialization during the regime l'ancien period, but in spite of making a couple people immensely wealthy and powerful, it was so bad for the common man that the French revolution occurred and completely reshaped you the history of Europe for the next 250 years. <br><br>The century of humiliation in China speaks to the potential consequences of disconnection from the world and ignoring your Nations industrial base. At the beginning of the century of humiliation China was still by far the richest country in the world thanks to strong tea, porclean, and food exports, but by ignoring industrialization it ended up prime for exploitation by countries like England or the Netherlands which besides having the capacity to build more wealth out of less resources, also had overwhelmingly greater military powers. I do believe that that is a glimpse into our future if we continue on this path, prioritizing playing money games with money instead of using money as a tool to help facilitate production. If someone has tanks on your doorstep, you can't fire financial instruments at them, and you definitely can't fire people from Zimbabwe who now make more than the poverty line at them.<br><br>I do want to mention once again that I'm not against financial products or financial innovation per se, but we have to be very careful not to let it take over our societies and our economies because they don't actually produce anything of value, they're so purpose ought to be facilitating other industries that do produce things of value.",
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