Quote (Tjo @ Jun 16 2017 08:31pm)
Are we going downhill? Or we are progressively getting better. Will our children and children's children live in a better world than we do today?
Ten years ago it was 2007. I was living in paradise back then, in a small town in Sweden. That sort of town would be like an utopia 2017. Today the town is infested with crime and drugs. The world is getting tougher, colder, bigger.
The big question is if we really are getting better, or if we are heading towards a major catastrophe? Society has always went up and down throughout history, civilizations has bloomed, and eventually fallen due to corruption, moral decay and war. What is your picture of the western world in ten years? What will the western world look like in 2027?
Objectively no, we aren't getting better.
The unsustainable bubbles of immigration, social security, medicare, Democratic inner city criminals, and now add Obamacare have helped to double the national debt over the past ten years.
We can't feel the effects yet, but the delayed sting will be deep on the standard of living of the country.
However, the far extended promise of any current hardship is that the suffering usually creates a future generation that is more equipped to fix the problems. The generation after us will likely be better off than us, even if we have to fix the baby boomers' stupidity right now.
It all depends on if we can close the borders and end the welfare state within the next twenty years.
This post was edited by EndlessSky on Jun 16 2017 07:23pm