I think it’s the same in all developed nations; constantly needing more skills to achieve the same standard of living. I think a lot of it is from nearly all resources getting more expensive to extract (oil, wood, iron, etc) due to us having already extracted all the low-hanging-fruit, and needing to move on to more resource-intensive methods like offshore-drilling, fracking, importing lumber long distances from harsher climates. The other drivers are the attacks on labor and executives/shareholders taking more profits for themselves instead of paying their workers more.
Your last point is where I’m putting most of the blame. We’re all doing worse because a few people at the top always, ALWAYS have to do better than last year.
Eternal growth is physically impossible. At some point, shit will have to stagnate, and if shit starts to stagnate, but the top still insists on eternal growth, they’ll have to take some from the bottom. That’s what’s happening right now. The top can no longer keep making more money off of an industry in development, so instead they’ll cut costs, costs being you, the worker, and hope they die before it all collapses under them.
I think it’s the same in all developed nations; constantly needing more skills to achieve the same standard of living. I think a lot of it is from nearly all resources getting more expensive to extract (oil, wood, iron, etc) due to us having already extracted all the low-hanging-fruit, and needing to move on to more resource-intensive methods like offshore-drilling, fracking, importing lumber long distances from harsher climates. The other drivers are the attacks on labor and executives/shareholders taking more profits for themselves instead of paying their workers more.
I lived in Denmark for a few years, and no, it isn’t the same in all developed nations.
Your last point is where I’m putting most of the blame. We’re all doing worse because a few people at the top always, ALWAYS have to do better than last year.
Eternal growth is physically impossible. At some point, shit will have to stagnate, and if shit starts to stagnate, but the top still insists on eternal growth, they’ll have to take some from the bottom. That’s what’s happening right now. The top can no longer keep making more money off of an industry in development, so instead they’ll cut costs, costs being you, the worker, and hope they die before it all collapses under them.
But the filthy wealthy gotta grow their wealth somehow!