Has the regeneracy arrived?

[David Horn]

(01-21-2017, 07:41 PM)TnT Wrote:

(01-21-2017, 09:28 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(01-20-2017, 06:35 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Be that as it may, I can tell from many of his comments he is totally in "the bubble." Heck, I could have been there too. It's tempting when one is wrapped constantly in the excitement of tech, start ups, etc. In any case, this is precisely the tone deafness that has so enraged the "not coasts" against the coasts. Globalism and middle class health are mutually incompatible.

I don't think that's true, but it is hard.  Everyone wants the Easy Button, so the globalists push for open borders and free trade, the nativists prefer to slam the door shut.  Neither can succeed, because neither is adequate.  The real solution will take decades to complete, but it starts with future-first infrastructure, education and training, and a restructuring of the economy away from capital friendly tax and subsidy policies to something that involves a transfer from the ownership class to everyone else.  How and to what extent is TBD ... but it will either happen or chaos will make an appearance first.

Do you think any of this is possible without a substantial and sustainable and dramatic decrease in the population of our dreadful species?

It will take something.  I hope it's not that.  Any option leading to mass decline in  population: war, plague, mass hysteria or whatever, will create more problems than it solves ... at least in the short to mid term.  A gradual decline in the world's population may occur, but I won't be around to see it.  I suspect you won't either.