Don’t know where you live but where I live there is simply no one born here willing to do the hard jobs: harvesting, kitchen cook, cleaning, construction, etc. Only immigrants. There is beging this a lack of workforces at all levels, it’s scary, even hair dressers can’t find people. And additionally population is aging fast, no one left to pay the pensions, 2 worker pay the pension of one retired person – which is not possible and hence pensions is the biggest deficit of the government. Immigration is a net positive here, but it scares people, because right extremists make it look scary with lies, like the one the triggered the riots in England recently.

I live in Germany.

This is it. We westerners, and very especially Americans live an incredibly inflated lifestyle. Walmarts stuffed tonthe roof with useless shit, people mistaking luxuries with necessities and whinging like hell when they can't have their air conditioned 3500sqft house stocked with 3 refrigerators and 9 tvs.

We waste an absolutely disgusting amount of absolutely everything that we produce. No one values anything, and everything is replaceable.

It's sad but I feel like a really and very hard depression would likely be the absolute best thing for this planet and our species in the long term. We are so fat and so lazy and so entitled. It's hard to imagine getting to a more efficient future without a hard cultural reset.