America is a rich third world nation. I wished my ancestors stayed in Scandinavia but at least they were nice enough not to move to the south. Most of the world’s problems are caused by Americans, the rich, the greedy, the uneducated, and overconsumption.
The poverty level in America is so fucking insane and so is inflation. And intergenerational poverty. This is the worst fucking time in history to be having kids especially if you are uneducated and lower class. Even making well above minimum wage makes me feel poor. I know that many people would kill to make my mediocre wages. People dream about that comma in their paycheck.
When it comes to the perfect government/economic system, there is none because humans are imperfect and greedy creatures. They all suck in their own unique ways.
Climate change, pollution, overpopulation, expensive AF health care, bad education, anti-intellectualism, wealth inequality are our biggest problems right now.
Too many dumb, uneducated people are having kids to mooch off government assistance. The smart, educated middle class people know the world is shit, know they cannot afford a child, wonder what kind of shitshow their children will inherit, know life is suffering, worry about the billion and a half genetic diseases or conditions their child could possibly have, or are just plain infertile.
I shouldn’t have to go into debt to earn three letters after my name in order to escape intergenerational poverty and become lower middle middle class. Want to go into more debt to become lower upper middle class? Just two more fucking years and a semester plus an unpaid internship of work I do now at $500 a credit. Want to be forgiven of that debt? Pray you get a job on a res in Alaska or somewhere else for two years, then pray again your loan forgiveness application doesn’t get rejected because your profession is the ugly, forgotten, autistic, red headed stepchild of the medical world.
My Microbiology teacher said that the earth has twenty more years,. I say good riddance.