My grandpa grew his own vegetable garden too, but he also owned his own house. My other granddad lived on a farm.
For the majority of the millennial and Gen Z generation, home ownership has been out of reach as home prices and income inequality have skyrocketed (at least in the US).
Poor people living in overpriced apartments don't have many options when it comes to food sources.
The college students seem keenly aware of the threat AI poses to the job market, with many of them pushing back whenever tech giants say it's the wave of the future. Perhaps this will be what lights a fire under them to demand change, but who knows? I've felt like we were on the verge of a revolution before, only for it to fizzle out with a whimper.
Yeah, the housing market has become rich people selling other rich people houses. Their goal of "you will own nothing, and you will be happy," where they intended to rent over-priced houses forever (with entire neighborhoods bought up across the country and kept empty) hasn't really panned out for them as they'd envisioned. So, word is that investment firms that have done this may be deciding to dump all these properties back onto the market to sell, but the asking prices for these middling properties is so inflated today that no one can still afford them.
But there seems to be a weird intention on the part of the oligarchs to destroy things, not as a side effect but as a key goal. They seem to assume -- or suspect -- that the end result will benefit them is some ways.
Even the A.I. tech kings seem to be wary of their own product and the dystopia it may unleash between 2027 and 2030. Yet they're enthusiastic about it too.
When Peter Theil was recently asked if he had any religious beliefs, responded, without apparent irony, that he wasn't sure "but maybe Satanic."
What's not to be optimistic about with that?
