We are in one of the worst moments of the history of the human race, yet the news coverage of this shitty times are sports.
Fucking sports, man... I never cared about sports, but nowadays, less than ever.
Fucking sports, man... I never cared about sports, but nowadays, less than ever.
@captainepoch Why is now worse than any other time?
@valleyforge It doesn't really matter that is now or 10 years ago, it still applies.
@captainepoch Why? What makes now or ten years ago "one of the worst moments of the history of the human race"?
@valleyforge Ten years ago there wasn't a pandemic around, as far as I can recall. The economics weren't neither good or bad, but now the debt has skyrocketed in one year faster than anybody expected and a huge amount of people lost their job and still don't have a job, which is bad for also getting food to provide to your family and yourself...
I think it could be called one of the worst moments comparing it with 10 years ago, to be honest...
I think it could be called one of the worst moments comparing it with 10 years ago, to be honest...
@captainepoch The unemployment rate is actually really low right now.
The debt and pandemic and things are bad but they're hardly worse than stuff like the any number of significant wars, aids, or the cold war that have happened in the last 50 years
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/06/us-jobs-july-unemployment-rate-502681
@valleyforge You're right, it only passed one year since this started.
However, wars took a few years to destroy what was already built, and took several years to recover from each one of them, whether it was WWI, WWII, or any civil war at any country.
The pandemic was like a war, but in one year. Everything stopped and not a single government could handle it (as expected, because this was totally new for our actual society, although it could be handled better, sure).
The employment rate is low everywhere. In USA I don't know how things are, but here in Europe the Central Bank is loaning money for each country of the union. Thousans of millons of euros. That's a huge loan for each country, for which we won't be able to be free for years, even generations... Meanwhile, instead of managing everything, governments only know how to put more taxes on the people instead of handling the money waaaaay better.
So I think this is a reaaaaally bad moment for us, to be honest...
However, wars took a few years to destroy what was already built, and took several years to recover from each one of them, whether it was WWI, WWII, or any civil war at any country.
The pandemic was like a war, but in one year. Everything stopped and not a single government could handle it (as expected, because this was totally new for our actual society, although it could be handled better, sure).
The employment rate is low everywhere. In USA I don't know how things are, but here in Europe the Central Bank is loaning money for each country of the union. Thousans of millons of euros. That's a huge loan for each country, for which we won't be able to be free for years, even generations... Meanwhile, instead of managing everything, governments only know how to put more taxes on the people instead of handling the money waaaaay better.
So I think this is a reaaaaally bad moment for us, to be honest...
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@captainepoch I'm in Texas and I think our government handled it ok. We're basically back to normal here
@captainepoch That's hardly the worst thing the Spanish government has done in recent history
@valleyforge It's the recent history that matters, not the old administration, because things can be changed and they didn't, in fact, it's worst...
Meanwhile in Spain our government spent 53 millons of euros on an airline with a plane, linked to Venezuela's corrupt government, instead of putting that money into helping local business and poor people. And a ton of shit like that, spending money like it grows faster than a potato.
So we're angry and hoping this shitty government go the fuck out as soon as possible...