We are at a point of history where every single decision will have negative consequences. That on the one hand feel constraining. I rather see that as we recognise and _accept_ that pain of the magnitude X is inevitable (and maybe that was impossible before), it suddenly opens new avenues for solutions. But again we need to kill the holy cow of Wohlstand first.

The thing is, I personally think, that cow is already dead, most people just don't realise it yet. It died with Russian boots entering Ukrainian soil and the first sanctions we imposed. We are now in a period of coming to terms with it. Methinks.