| Note that it's not just a frozen fact, but a growing trend. Those charts go up up up, meaning that things are going to get even worse for more people if all parameters stay the same. This never ends well. Radical new ideas take hold in the minds of the frustrated lower classes and then everything explodes into revolutions, wars and rivers of blood. The reason for the violence is the frustration morphed into hatred on one side and feeling of superiority and entitlement morphed into fear on the other side. Nothing good can come out of clashing hatred against fear. Some "skilled" politicians channel the feelings of frustration-on-the-verge of hatred towards other nations or social classes, like immigrants, political unions (EU), etc and that's why you have the populists gaining traction all over the world. Technology was supposed to save us from this - yet it seems to have accelerated it. The cherry on this cake is the fact that the biosphere and climate are collapsing, while the population is growing, so something's got to give first. Interesting times ahead for sure. |