Whats A Thing That Is Dangerously Close To Collapse That You Know About?

[@DRourkey]

AI is being used to fill most positions that would be considered entry level which is leaving a gap in people being able to start careers which will eventually lead to a lack of experienced professionals in all fields

[@BootyHole-r5f]

My wife is an accountant singe she left school she has had 4 different jobs. All but the one she is at now went a.i. and the only reason her current company doesn't is because they can't afford it. A.i is fucking scary.

[@anon556]

Much like how KZbinrs were replaced with low effort AI. Just like this video we're watching now!

[@Tom-S1981]

I'm just hoping it will come full circle like everything else in this reality field, and companies will be looking for creativity which AI lacks...

[@RobertJones-gq3jq]

AI was used to create this post.

[@norbertnagy5514]

​@@anon556the voice is not ai tought... Ai probably helped in collecting the comments and with the text to speech but this is a human reading them

[@argonianaccount1876]

Until you get rid of “gatekeeping” and the BS apprenticeship wages, the trades will always suffer.

[@fubufb420]

I want to get into the trades... Still trying... I'm not perfect, but I work hard and have ambition ... Think that's enough!!! Nope...gotta be the prit near perfect employee as well!!!😂

[@Jabberwockybird]

F**ing unions

[@mrnefarious8556]

Applied for my local electrical union 4 months ago, just now being put on the list, wish me luck

[@markwhite7444]

The trades is where it’s at, you have to go where the work is. That’s why it’s called a “Journeyman”

[@Crowbars357]

@@mrnefarious8556same here but a few weeks ago. Good luck

[@arcanineryu]

All this stuff we need to do has been arbitrarily declared as not profitable and therefore impossible to pull off.

[@SnaabbeamSneebers]

That, or, is actually extremely expensive to pull off and that leaves the question, WHO is going to pay for the solution? You? You want to pay more taxes to fix citrus trees? Sure you do right? Because you're an adult with a job who actually pays taxes and understands how much is taken out.....right? You know what's easy? Performative, smug, vague, non specific statements about how YOU know the issue and YOU are morally superior to those other, evil, greedy humans. Now, that's something that is truly arbitrary.

[@IncTheCredible]

​​​​@@SnaabbeamSneebers Maybe the issue is not that they will pay more taxes or whatever (since you will need to regardless) But where the tax money is being misused for supposedly more profitable or politically benefiting innitiatives and agendas Since its equally ridiculous to assume the poster won't agree on well used taxes, and/or that an individual can itself solve such big scale issues by pulling the wallet. The institutions themselves need to be responsible and accountable for this kind of stuff and not only for short-time beneficial projects and such, and also by defacto, the government too, that's their job, right?

[@thalmoragent9344]

​@@SnaabbeamSneebers How about taxes are better allocated to properly maintain the country?

[@denofpigs2575]

​@@thalmoragent9344 That'd be nice but it would never happen. How would pur politicians get rich if we allocated taxes properly?

[@DaRkLoRdZoRc]

@@SnaabbeamSneebers "WHO is going to pay for the solution?" The Federal Reserve's infinite money machine, of course!

[@slamuri2801]

Said the thing about utilities and infrastructure and got downvoted like a mug because people say “google exists.” Yeah. Okay. Try learning everything you need to know about repairing a lift station on Google. I’ll wait.

[@veson231]

If you think that’s bad, take a look at the power grids. Some of those things date back to the 50’s and are being put under a level of strain they were never designed for

[@autumnrain7626]

@@veson231 the thing with america also is that our infrastructure wasnt wrecked in ww2 like Europe. Its why we still run on 120v from the wall instead of 220 like the the rest of the world does. Never got forced to rebuild and modernize everything

[@sabersroommate8293]

Those people have no clue you still need experience for things you can't google.

[@Abdega]

And Google keeps getting worse Along with the fact some manuals have never been digitized And even things that have been put on the internet has been taken down or deleted or lost thanks to link rot

[@dbyspae122]

@@autumnrain7626 blessing and a curse

[@BenQotsa]

basically in short, corporate greed is killing us.

[@No-oc5dc]

Screw corporations the hippies had it right they defined how we live what we do and how we do it follow the money

[@BenQotsa]

@@No-oc5dc yeah but the corporations took over the hippies, hence the invention of the yippie

[@natixeboom]

(((Corporations)))

[@Gnarmoshthrash]

"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." Benito Mussolini

[@caralho5237]

"B-but Jeff Bezos! Government spending? Money supply? Whats that? W-we need better minimum wage laws!!" 😂

[@rp8401]

It's 2024 and I have an AI narrated video warning me about AI content

[@MrPlito95]

The consequences of the industrial revolution have been a disaster for the human race

[@MikasaNeedMoney]

Dollar One Hundred K comment, 10/10 would read again

[@vuzereusazureus2245]

How much yar is that ? 😆

[@SSFighter1701]

Story 12: Yep - i’ve been in IT for like 17 years and it definitely seems like it’s just a bunch of us 40-50 somethings are keeping shit working.

[@Rapscallion2009]

Yep. That slightly eccentric self-taught guy in the comfy jumper and slip on shoes amiably ambling around the workplace. The GOAT.

[@Priinsu]

I'm looking into getting into IT and eventually cyber security after I get out of the Navy. At the moment, I'm studying for the COMPTIA ITF+ but in October I start the Associate in Cybersecurity at WGU that's supposed to get me the other COMPTIA Certs I need, all funded by USNCC program. Do you have any tips or advice on getting into IT. I'm 30yo and I've been in the navy for going on 10 years now.

[@3flameomega]

​@Priinsu I haven't seen anyone do ITF+ before but I would recommend the aA+ cert to start. Unfortunately the easy way in is help desk to get your foot in the door. If you want something higher than that then aim for getting hands on experience and target network+ cert

[@SSFighter1701]

@@Priinsu Get whatever certificates you like but I highly recommend targeting the Network+ and A+ for the fundamentals. The biggest weaknesses I see when interviewing is in the low-level fundamentals. People can spout off all the cybersecurity stuff but then have no idea how IPs work or what DNS is and stuff like that.

[@MrSqurk]

In my company we had 1 guy who knew how our network operated. He has an “apprentice” now but he is still chilling.

[@brandonshelp4682]

Trade jobs are collapsing themselves. I tried for the electrician union, aced everything, and got turned down.

[@miguelorozco6138]

Starting pay is so low that makes it impossible to afford the job

[@Jabberwockybird]

It's the union's fault. F** unions

[@DarthABBA]

It's very strange how industries willingly destroy themselves and turn around and are confused why they're dying.

[@BrunoStark00]

Dude same here with the elevator union in sf. Aced my shit but still turned down

[@XxMr_eggxX]

Ohh dang fr? I'm 16 and I'm planning to go to trade shcool after I graduate next year do you think you can explain more on that?

[@ikechristyii4970]

So basically the C-Suites policy of profits now, consequences later is finally reaching the consequences phase

[@ennuiblue4295]

the can has been kicked to the end of the road 🥫

[@summerwind4590]

It still has a few more feet or inches or millimeters left to go, next quarter 😙😗 🎶🎶

[@Effitall650]

@@ikechristyii4970 reaching.....mire like a long drawnout and painful first stage is underway. Just wait until we get through the intro and into the actual consequenses. Get out of the cities, especially blue cities and states, RUUUUUUUUNNN!!!!!

[@JesterKingZant]

And the grunts suffer the consequences, not the investors and executives Angry customers are not Karens at this point. They're justified "Just get a better job" doesn't work for the humans who have those jobs. AI doesn't make the Starbucks coffee you drink I'm not a batista, but I have to wear ghun earmuffs there because the retail music is THAT LOUD. Is this a health hazard? I'm not being rhetorical. Is listening to excessively loud music for 8 consecutive hours a health hazard?

[@AW-jl1tj]

​@@Effitall650ah yes- leave the blue states and go to the red states with no tax revenue to pay for improvements and no regulations to keep anyone safe. Right.

[@danielibarra493]

Story 17. I can vouch for that one. I live with my brother. I'm a waiter, and my brother works with kids with special needs. He's constantly having to talk these kids down from the emotional ledge, or physically restrain these kids so that they don't hurt themselves or others, and when I found out how much he gets paid, it broke my heart. I don't make much, but there are times I'll make as much in two or three nights as he does in TWO WEEKS. These kids genuinely NEED patient, qualified and capable people to look after them, but the school pays them a wage that one person alone could barely survive on in this economy, let alone comfortably provide for a family.

[@TheChicagoJunkie]

Keep spreading the word! That's another field I won't be trying.

[@greasybumpkin1661]

RE: every story that mentions "young people aren't inheriting this from older people" this is entirely on the older people, I did look into trades, I looked into A LOT of different career paths because my industry collapsed some time ago. They either want to slave drive you in an apprenticeship or send you away to a college for 4 years. Neither option teaches you anything useful for the job. I have bills to pay, I cannot afford to retrain in this manner, either train me on the job or forget about it.

[@titolovely8237]

The skills gap has me legitimately terrified. 2008 locked a huge number of mellinnials out of the entry level workforce and AI and off shoring is doing the same thing to gen z. We will not have the knowledge or skills to run much of anything in the next 20 years

[@caralho5237]

Thats not a problem at all. With our current level of productivity even if only 30% of the population are working its still enough to support the rest. The real issue lies within the financial system. The entire west is being poisoned because of it. If your money is worth 50% less every 10 years(thats being conservative), you cant afford anything. Thats because the government is printing out money and devaluing it. Theyre taking trillions of this money and slending it in rhe most useless ways possible, funneling manpower and resources into completely meaningless tasks and making everyone poorer in the process. The military budhet, the subsidies, the "social programs", the agencies, its all bullshit. It seems like their only purpose is enpoverishinf the average american. Makes sense when you rhink about it, poor people are easier to control after all

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

Pick a trade and keep in touch with a group of men with diverse skills. When push comes to shove, you'd best have a small town lined up.

[@veson231]

That power grid one, what’s worse is that a lot of power grids are ancient. They are being put under a strain they were NEVER designed for. You can only repair and add on to a point. For a lot of larger grids, the ones that get the most use, that point was passed long ago. Look at the blackouts and brown outs going on. That will only get worse. Some of those grids date back to the 1940’s and there is no simple way to replace them.

[@AzyrealLal]

Good ole greed strikes again

[@jaredangell8472]

The baby boomers have doomed us all.

[@3bydacreekside]

Everyone... Everyone has doomed everyone The world is structured on such shaky ground, and things have never been more connected....it could all fall together in a short time

[@jaredangell8472]

@@3bydacreekside bruh I thought I was black pilled. JFC

[@Commodore22345]

"The baby boomers have doomed us all." No, they really didn't. Baby boomers mostly aged out of the economy and positions of power before all this really became a problem. The generation that actually ruined it all was Gen X. They are the ones who have created the world we are living in right now, and the greatest deception they pulled off was making everyone believe it was the boomers.

[@Commodore22345]

@@3bydacreekside This is only a bad thing if you operate on the assumption that a collapse is a bad thing. It's not. At least not in the long run. Sure, a societal collapse would be painful and certainly not enjoyable or easy to live through, but it won't last forever and humanity will come through the other side of it stronger than ever. This isn't hypothetical either. There's tons of archeological evidence to suggest human civilization has actually gone through several periods of collapse and we always recover and push our civilization to new heights after each one. That's why I'm not worried about a collapse even though I know I likely won't be one of the ones to come through it unharmed. I recognize that sometimes you just gotta hit the reset button on everything, no matter how painful it might be.

[@AgentK-im8ke]

@@Commodore22345 and the ones like switzerland who are literal fortress will go through it like if it was a minor annoyance the globalism is slowly rotting and countries that dont depend on imports AKA any european country is relatively safe, as for the US yes they can build everything unfortunately for them, they rely on another continents to sell their shit and makes money once all of this collaspe the US will have a big problem

[@BladeValant546]

Here is the thing, people are falling into a trap with USPS. Once that is gone, free shipping is gone with amazon and it will be more expensive and less efficient. I love how feeding kids is just to expensive but not our military budget. Sheesh

[@caralho5237]

No worries Jimmy, just vote better next time! 😂

[@clarkoption1941]

The republicans have been legit destroying it since the hw bush was president. Someone decided it needs to run at a profit and that’s not how it was structured to work and did work. It’s one of those things too where voters are happy to have their taxes go there but politicians don’t care

[@RainbowManification]

Amazon saw this coming ages ago which is why they have their own delivery service now. They’re not going to be affected by a USPS collapse.

[@AzyrealLal]

​@@RainbowManification We will be affected by the collapse

[@jeremiahbullfrog226]

@@RainbowManification Yes they will. The USPS already supplements Amazon's delivery system so that Amazon doesn't have to triple their workforce of drivers and vehicles. Amazon also relies on UPS and FedEx. Amazon is unwilling to spend the money to invest in being able to handle their entire platform's delivery burden themselves. And this is the company led by the guy who said that he has so much money, he can't figure out what to do with it outside of investing in private space travel.

[@mostlyharmfulll2103]

I love how 9:10 went full meta, given that this video is even read by an AI voice.

[@-WarCriminal-22]

And the creator didn't even bother editing it all properly, i.e. so that the AI doesn't read it all in a non stop monotone voice with no pauses. Also the subtitles are really bad

[@only1life88]

My nephew is someone i love but hes 15 in school and cant spell or anything. Its depressing. I wish we could fix our youths future together but nobody's got time to worry or fix it.

[@OanaTheMeerkat]

The best way to fix itis to stop making school mandatory. If you don't pass the bare minimum you don't get to next grade. I remember my teacher telling us - this class is like a game where if you don't get enough points in game x you don't get to play x + 1. And no, nobody cares if your kid is 20 and he's still in primary school (not in mine anyway).

[@angelinacamacho8575]

thats why its even more important to do additional schooling at home in addition to whatever outside schooling they receive. school didnt teach me how to read or how to do basic spelling my family did just by sitting me down and spending time reading to me. thats the real issue here parents not spending time with their kids because they dont have the time or would rather give them an Ipad or leave it up to others to teach their kids but then get mad when those others fail to do so. the only way to fix it is to be the change you want to see and lead by example and just hope that others decide to join.

[@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917]

15?

[@milkymilk53]

The great barrier reef in Australia is basically all bleached and dead/dying. About 80% of the reef/coral/ecosystem has been bleached and gone

[@tylerian4648]

Check a more recent report on that.

[@davefenton102]

Apparently some parts have grown back better than before. They're not sure why exactly. The greenies don't like admitting to this since it doesn't fit the climate alarmist narrative.

[@Linterna001]

​@@tylerian4648Isn't 99% gone by now.

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

Totally false. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest it has ever been and perfectly healthy. That's why it's never discussed in mass media any more - like the ice caps, which are variously stable or increasing in mass.

[@andrewhooper7603]

who cares, are you a fish?

[@CameronTylerBreckel]

Trade jobs are great! But you have to go through a apprenticeship which only pay 13 to 15 a hour.

[@milkymilk53]

Yep, expected to work 4+ years in an apprenticeship making $10-$15/hr until you get fully qualified to then start a business

[@fubufb420]

​@@milkymilk53yeah start a business. Just make enough to survive, don't have to have trump money!! 🤑 💰😂😂

[@PrimericanIdol]

No wonder entry level jobs ask for years of experience.

[@GodSaveTheUnitedStates]

My first few years working in road maintenance I made about 12 an hour. I currently make around 19 an hour after 5 years and my pay tops out at 25 an hour after 15 years service (if I stay in my current position). There are higher positions but there are only so many slots to fill. My wife and I both work full time and we barely make ends meet in our current economy.

[@FourthIdentity-gu2zk]

Then quit talking like trade jobs are better than college. Also if you drop 2 grand at a vo-tech and think that should entitle you to college level wages then you're just as greedy as all the corporations destroying the world. Everyone want to bitch the bridges are falling apart and then all the bridge builders want to think they're worth 30 bucks an hour or more lol. Can't be both guys, either you need to be paid as well as a college graduate which is ridiculous or the bridges aren't actually that important to maintain and yall just bitching

[@lokismischief2512]

I've known of and talked about the insect disappearance for a decade or so to my friends and anyone who will listen. We as a species, literally owe our existence to them. They're so critical to the function of this planet that their disappearance should have EVERYONE concerned about their absence.

[@tyogrady866]

What kind of bug farm should someone start if they want to just release the bugs into the wild?

[@lokismischief2512]

@tyogrady866 honestly? Parasitoids (varied families of wasp) would be beneficial, beetles, and decay bolstering insects. More sphecidae wasp, too, would be helpful as they're eager plant pest hunters. Midges, gnats, and plethora of other swarming insects (great for the food chain). The list goes on and on, but all that work will be for naught, as the pesticide industry will forever pump its toxins into our biosphere, so long as there is a market for them. If we ban these chemicals, the insects, and, by extension, us may have a chance to survive long term.

[@lokismischief2512]

@tyogrady866 parasitoid wasps, specifically. Each pest has its own parasitoid, more or less, and they're specified hunters, so they don't tend to take out other organisms aside from their host species. Spend an afternoon reading of them. They're really fascinating and astonishing creatures.

[@lexiluongo9014]

I also live in Lowell ma and this person isn't kidding. That bridge is scary AF. I will drive the long way to avoid it.

[@warthog473]

My mom lives in the next town over. Same. Lowell is an old mill town long past its prime, everything there is just aging more and more. I grew up around there 50 years ago.

[@noreoz1024]

A lot of those stories are dollars for the "Uncle Ted was right" jar

[@sniperrecon676]

It’s getting pretty full these days

[@Abdega]

@@sniperrecon676 what do you buy when it gets full?

[@oldluke7653]

​@@Abdega3 Bs baby ...brass bullets and beans

[@mikiabc3907]

@@Abdegaa forest hut

[@AzyrealLal]

Uncle Ted? Roosevelt?

[@ClassyNeons]

It's almost comedic when you realize it. The overarching trend here is the majority of these issues can be traced back to financial greed. It's either on the part of a large company/industry or a very small percentage wanting to keep money at the top. Remove all the unnecessary global elites from the equation and redistribute their wealth where it's needed. Sudden you'll find that a lot of these issues would disappear.

[@caralho5237]

Then the wealth magically finds its way into the hands of the "redistributors" and now you have the same problem but worse. Everyone likes to complain about X or Y billionaire but no one complains about the government's multi TRILLIONAIRE spending of the money forcefully taken from us. Why? Because they're the good guys, because politicians always deliver on their promises. Its not like we have unelected officials in major government sgencies singlehandedly taking decisions that will have ramifications centuries from now. Its why its very much desirable for the elites that young people in universities are all scream in unison "EAT THE RICH!". The true elites are happy because they'll be the ones doing the "eating". 😂

[@XxTheTrueCrimexX]

Okay let's do it. Where do we start.. wait why are the Feds at my door

[@ErikratKhandnalie]

Geee, it's almost like capitalism is the problem.

[@dbyspae122]

@@ErikratKhandnalie🧃

[@LiterallyRyanGosling-p8b]

3:44 makes me really mad. I had two friends pass away in the 2021 surfside condominium collapse. Fix the f-ing infrastructure BEFORE people die!!!!

[@dragonofparadise]

The US Dollar and the entire US economy with it.

[@Humaricslastcall]

Which means the _world economy_ along with it.

[@QuestionThings123]

​@Humaricslastcall nah, the rest of the world is trying to transition to BRICS currency and the elites in the US are intentionally going along with it in an attempt to switch us over to a CBDC that will work with the rest of the world, the whole time being sold a lie by the rest of the world on that empty promise because the rest of the world wants to collapse the US dollar/economy and the US elites are simply playing right into it. This is how they destroy the US as top dog. Rest of the world may be hurting pretty good but by god they'll take the US down first if it's the last thing they do

[@TheCullousus]

​@@Humaricslastcall BRICS has been planning on it.

[@AgentK-im8ke]

@@Humaricslastcall well actually no cause china as already make its money a big currency like the dollar so no yo can't threaten the world to save you'r ass anymore

[@ShortandSweet54]

The infrastructure part is true. Almost every week we are under a boil water notice in the city which means no bathrooms sometimes if you go to the store. I live in the county where this doesn't happen, but still we sometimes have to have water bottles here because if there was a leak, it was used to extinguish a fire, or a car accident, we have no water for a few hours.

[@Psychsmoothie]

Mail ending is totally true they just closed every mail sorting facility in wyoming

[@QuestionThings123]

Having the exact opposite problem where I live. Amazon delivers in area from their own distribution center with their own drivers but give a substantial portion to the PO to deliver and neither are coming even close to keeping up due to the insane volume and extremely bad staffing shortages on delivery drivers because no one is applying to work there so the people that are have really good job security and are making bank

[@-WarCriminal-22]

Yeah, it's not just America tho, in Russia the only reason why mail is still operational is because it got combined with bank (same company) and grocery store (added into the offices). Oh, and the government bailouts. However, mail is still used a lot, but mostly by government agencies to send letters to each other.

[@BigBlessed9135]

I noticed the insect thing Summer 2021 because of just how many mosquitoes were in the CITY. Then this year the spiders clearly have been eating good. What dont they have to compete with anymore?

[@noreoz1024]

I live in Europe and for the past few years it feels like certain insect species get their "prime year" where they reproduce like crazy and you see them everywhere. After said prime year, you barely see them at all.

[@sebasthianpino7662]

I live in Chile, and this things its happening a lot with birds. I live in the capital, Santiago, a big urban city, something like new york. 5-8 years ago its was common to see Pidgeons flying, in the roofs, or in the parks. Today its pretty rare to see at least 1. This also happened to other birds tha used to live in trees and parks across the city.

[@DarthABBA]

The militaries of the west have been allowed to stagnate and be lead by bizarre policies and now that things look like we might need them, we have so few people to draw on. Couple in bad economies and how the army doesn't pay well, it's not a thing most people will go in (letalone risk dying). Would I die for Canada? Not a chance. Who would?

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

I certainly would not die for my country in its current condition.

[@Commodore22345]

The real problem with our military, ironically, is how high tech and sophisticated it has become. If we got into a long, drawn out war with China, we would run into serious logistical issues since the weapons, technology and equipment we use are harder to manufacture than the simpler, lower-tech (but still effective) Chinese equivalents. We are actually seeing this play out in the Russia/Ukraine war where western nations trying to keep Ukraine supplied with artillery shells and missiles are having trouble keeping up with Russia's own production because Russian munitions are lower tech and easier to mass-produce.

[@AgentK-im8ke]

@@Commodore22345 it is already a fact that the US cannot sustain a major naval engagement with China to protect Taiwan its not a question of mass production or tech, its question of distances, China can launch missiles from their mainland no amount of logistics can change that hug advantages that china have, also china doesn't have to secure 2 oceans

[@PhilMante]

Why? They'll send me to war for their profit.

[@warthog473]

People don't take water shortages seriously. They think water in aquifers is never ending and the aquifers refill quickly, the way a private well refills in a day. Water in aquifers filters through bedrock far below the surface, sometimes miles underground. The largest aquifer under the Midwest is 70% empty, and geologists estimate it may take up to 100,000 years to completely refill. That's not going to help us now. The only thing we can do is use less and less water. And humans don't like to be inconvenienced.

[@immortalsofar5314]

British law is already broken. Politicians decide that there aren't enough convictions for SA so Scotland passed clause 274/275 to make it illegal to cast doubt on accusations. If you're accused on the 24th/25th/26th and you have an alibi for the first two, they will only charge you with the 26th and you can't mention the first two allegations. I'm trying to corner politicians into putting their names to their actions and they are very reluctant.

[@MintRobin]

3:30 the reason Amazon isn't such a threat to the postal service is because the stuff you find on it is very low quality. I can't stand it anymore, I'm sick of every single description of a product (eg heated blanket) being: "*Fake brand name* Description of time" like they're clearly all made at the same company, each seller disconnects after about a month and you're convinced that your "ultraheat" was no good but maybe the Scandinavian sounding "schüller" is better? No, they're the same product sold by the same company made in the same Chinese factory. I always check Amazon last. The only thing required for Amazon's downfall is the time required for people to realise this. They practically use the same images of the products! In fact change the colour of the item you're buying, did the actual product change in the picture? No. It just changed colour, but it's all "photoshop" and I use that term loosely because they're actually using amazon's built-in AI to draw their products. This isn't a theory either, it's advertised by Amazon, it's factual.

[@Filo127]

Yea, Amazon used to be better than Wish/Temu in terms of scam products. Now it's all the same. I've basically switched back to going to physical stores to look at stuff and talk to people for most things lol. Can't trust shit nowadays

[@Z020852]

"Big Government regulations to make things safer made everything morr expensive...damn near impossible without Big Government investments" Uhhh...I have bad news for that guy and everybody who thinks the answer to a problem created by government is more government.

[@nikkinite6868]

Instead we need our children to eat lead to own the government because the childcare center daddy Bezos owns is trying to become more profitable!

[@matthewjaniss4103]

Got even worse news about deregulation .

[@caralho5237]

​@@matthewjaniss4103Dont be a dunce, regulations only wver benefit rhose who eegulate. Even the shit you take is regulated nowadays. Its called a carbon tax. We're all fucked

[@Avelcaine]

​@@caralho5237Heath and safety regs, tax caps, antitrust law... Hell, what are constitutional rights if not codified limitations on government itself? Regulation is absolutely beneficial to virtually everyone in a wide variety of cases, just as it is shortsighted, damaging and targeted in others. Problems arise when we no longer see the need to preemptively distinguish between good regulation and bad, but our pool of options concerning the matter has been reduced to: "regulation bad," or "regulation good." Our all-encompassing political dualism is going to put us all in our matching, diametrically-opposed graves.

[@FourthIdentity-gu2zk]

I dunno if you realize this but getting rid of regulation is literally akin to trusting big corporations and companies to not kill everyone and poison the environment put of the goodness of their heart which is childish at best and brain dead at worst

[@MysticWolf1223]

Story 2 made me think of the phrase, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

[@linkeddevices]

Russian bots pushing the most worthless affluent men to ignite a gender war, civil war, nazi war, pretty much everyone whos trump called besides fellow autocrats

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

Whatever hope i had left for the human race collapsed arond the 30 minute mark of this video.

[@FoxyGrandmeowmmy5598]

You had Hope to even begin with?

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

@nathanalexander5598 eh, a little...

[@someone2364]

I work building big warehouses in a central state in the US. We build them warehouses like they are gingerbread houses. The thing is, there is way too many of them, and not enough people filling up the space. Just today, I was working on 250,000 square feet, and we just finished one exactly like it. And beside it, there is a 650,000 that we are doing the foundation of. But like I said, many of the ones we have built are completely empty. The other day, I drove by a warehouse we did a while ago, that was almost a million in square feet, and was just completely empty. Something is going to happen, but I don't know what.

[@natenate2280]

The amount of gatekeeing in certain trades is CRIPPLING our future skilled labor work force. Im only 24 and it has been going for several decades now. IIt is now at a point where the only shops that are not MAJORITY immigrant labor are union shops and old established small shops in the area. Every medium size shop and up is mostly filled by visa workers which leaves us with a serious lack of native born skilled laborers that we need to depend on during a war time economy and what not.

[@js1031]

That's how "build the wall" starts. I don't agree with it, but it's how it happens...

[@philosoraptor1423]

If either pole of the Betelguese star is pointing at our Solar System enough, it could vaporize the atmosphere with gamma rays.

[@AeonAxisProductions]

Rent to own furniture and appliances, like aarons or rent a center

[@shadowmaster335]

You do realize that is an oxymoron right?, cant own something that is rented

[@Aetherial_Blaze]

​@@shadowmaster335 No, not renting something you own. "Rent-to-own" is a term where you basically pay to rent something for a certain amount of time, usually a handful of years, and at the end of the contract, ownership of the item is given to you. You rent it, and if you stick with it, you will eventually own it.

[@QuestionThings123]

Just curious for more, as I am on all these random topics here I guess, what's the problem with RAC/rto business that's gonna cause it to implode? Just the normal Amazon putting it out of business as well kinda stuff or something more unique?

[@AW-jl1tj]

​@@shadowmaster335you don't understand how Rent-A-Center works?

[@shadowmaster335]

@@AW-jl1tj ohh i get the concept, what i replied to was the first sentence, you can't by definition, own something that is rented, renting something is you paying a weekly/monthly fee for the licence to use something, and you have to return it in the same condition you got it (within reason), hence the oxymoron

[@Curious-Mr.-Lee]

I am delighted to live in the "Consequences of Other Generations" Era

[@dodgy_doodl3r145]

the company im in. i live in a christian country so we always celebrate year end well christmas parties. i became tight drinking buddies with one of the heads in accounts and she told me in november that we wont be having any year end parties this year because of some money trouble. she told me the higher ups are considering filing for bankruptcy next year. she's already sent out application letters mid october so this is really serious. the story they gave as cover up is we're donating the money we're supposed to use for the party to a charity and we'll be only be having a modest thanksgiving dinner or something. might as well send out applications letters.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

Almost ALL types of American infrastructure, western civilization, the American empire.

[@photon6668]

Not all of these are as close to failure as the authors would have you believe, but some are legitimately scary.

[@Zeldaftw]

Which ones?

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

@@Zeldaftw Most everything involving the climate and biosphere is either trumped up or a straight up lie - EXCEPT for the insect population depletion. That is a clear and present danger heralded by the bee diebacks in the 2000s and caused by the same thing - Roundup. Pure and simple, the use of Roundup and to a lesser degree other common pesticides in commercial agriculture. The white pill is that, all things being equal, once we shift away from that gunk it won't be long at all for those populations to bounce back with a vengeance, because their energy sources will be glutted and their predators in major decline, and so on up the chain.

[@salmannazeer2688]

50 year old will expect everything to collapse long after their death while a 15 year old will be terrified that everything will collapse during their lifetime. So depending on that people might have different opinions on these stuff

[@Marinus_Calamari]

@@salmannazeer2688 I'm almost fifty and I'm not at all confident I'm going to miss the spectacle, TBH. Things go to shit at an alarming rate. On the plus side, the Dutch ecosystems mostely collapsed in the 19th century, so that's one less thing I've to worry about.

[@richardserrano4555]

For those interested in the trade fields, look to get into a trade department of any warehouse, hospitals or local businesses that don't hold a union contract instead of waiting for the unions, its a great way to get experience without all the red tape in some places and doesn't suffer as much for gate keeping.

[@Alex456po]

While that's true, would you still like to be paid pennies while the threat of dying on the job, being made a punching bag slave, or something else be worth your time and effort and MONEY at any moment with companies with no rules and regulations for protection and just happiness all together?

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

@@Alex456po (this doesn't happen if you have genuine talent, which is what separates a tradesman from a union man)

[@lizs606]

​@@Bobo-ox7fjplenty of talented tradesmen in the union

[@leyrua]

The bridge story reminds me of the IT infrastructure at my job. We are trying to explain to leadership that just because everything is working NOW doesn't mean that the bridge isn't rusting out underneath of us. Please let us prioritize the right projects! Edit: oh boy then you described the issues occurring in the IT industry. Yeah, even now, leadership is looking to hire a perfect unicorn to fill a position that doesn't pay enough to ATTRACT a unicorn.

[@sambaroglio1234]

All the plumbing should have failed 10 years ago. The fact that it's all still working in LA means our plumbing is basically magic. And we live in the matrix.

[@rossatkinson8621]

English water supplies are near collapse. Weve had a growing populstion combined with private water firms whove refused to invest in any part of the infrastructure to the level that weve actually closed reservoirs. To put it into perspective we are a very rainy country, and because of water firms greed we havent stored water anywhere near enough so we are taking water from scotland to fuel the south

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

Man....those who came before us really just decided to ruin everything hu? Like we all could have had a turn driving. But they never did any engine maintenance and now its about to seeze up.

[@specialnewb9821]

Not really. Every generation doesn't like to think ahead. Yours and mine probably aren't different.

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

@specialnewb9821 when we try we are usually called woke.

[@caralho5237]

​@@sanguiniusonvacation1803Thats because youre not thinking ahead, you're just consuming rhe ideological slop the government agencies and big corporations are feeding you, thinking it will somehow make you part of the good guys. I have never heard someone genuinely thoughtful being called woke. Its always the braindead trendhoppers. Same people who think that rhe government will "solve the climate crisis" by taxing them for every fart, banning cheap transporation and rationing their electricity. Im scared of living another 30 years and its because of brainless individuals like you

[@3bydacreekside]

​@@sanguiniusonvacation1803 This is why cottagegore is growing

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

@@sanguiniusonvacation1803 That's not thinking ahead - that's thinking like 1890s Russia.

[@stephenwest6738]

I think people have no idea how fragile the financial sector is. Most of the wealth held by the top 2% in endlessly propped up in an understood, but deliberately unacknowledged denial scheme to inflate values during their lives. They have run off the cliff but they have all agreed not to look down. As the residental sector has become a second barrel of value inflation, there's nothing left to hunker down in a storm. This is commercial and private. Anything with value has been leveraged to the point of meaninglessness. This has happened many times before, but there is the appearance of fixing it, and actually fixing it. The problem with actually fixing it is that it usually happens as humanity recovers from something so catastrophic that it's feasible start from the foundation, without a handoff that is manageable and less painful. World War 2, Industrial revolution, Civil war reconstruction, Manifest destiny, the new world, Napoleon, British colonization, Ottoman, Rome. The scale of these events are the things that give economies a real window to do more than just push it downstream. If I were a gambler I would believe that next event would be a financial collapse followed by aggression from emerging powers in Asia to take initiative to control the resett of the following re-glabalization. If that happens in the next 20 years it's better for the US. If it's more like 50 years that's better for china

[@sethcordle2910]

my mental health is close to collapse.

[@DogglesistheBest]

So many of these are "failing companies are failing!"; let them fail, do not bail them out like we did in 2008/2009

[@MnemonicHack]

I'm not so concerned about the salinity of the oceans being dilited, because we desalinate water for use and just dump the salt back into the ocean. It won't be an even distribution, but it's a mitigating factor.

[@halogeek6]

thats the eqivalant of dumping a box of table salt into the ocean. the sheer amount of ground water we are dealing with here is massive. meanwhile the desal plants are so few and far between that it doesnt even come cose. in an expression the desal plants equate to a cup of water compared to a lake. its not a mitigating factor. it could be but we would need to increase desalination by over 25000% and that would cost tens of trillions in infrastructure cost alone. add to that already insaen cost the high cost of actually running a desal plant and it just isnt possible. not with our tech level.

[@MnemonicHack]

@@halogeek6 Okay. I have neither the knowledge nor the care about this issue to argue, so I'll trust that you're telling me the truth.

[@shadowmaster335]

​@@MnemonicHackwhat the person is saying is the equivalent of putting 1/8th of a tiny baindaid over a hole in your body the size of a football, and then go about your day

[@MnemonicHack]

@@shadowmaster335 I got that. Thanks for the analogy though.

[@owenthomas5103]

6. But architects using less concrete is a GOOD thing. It has it's place but it having been the go-to material for decades has been awful for the environment, urban heat islands, architecturely and in many cases for build quality.

[@lynnbrockel]

this should have be a movie called as the world ends

[@QuestionThings123]

You know how you're having a farting contest with one of your friends and try as hard as he might, all he can manage to muster up is one of those weak squeaks? Yeah, we're gonna go out in one of those weak squeaks

[@KyIeMcCIeIIan]

Story 43, topsoil... interesting commentary; quite the opposite nutrient situation is found in Ulster, Ireland, where phosphate nutrient levels are so high they are projected to take 50 years to return to normal. But, yes, it should be obvious to anyone who's even looked at the Dover Cliffs that a small layer of topsoil is truly all we have. In some places the topsoil doesn't even have nutrients, like the Amazon rain forest! Literally less than one percent of one percent of that basin is black soil, I think. All the nutrients are kept above the ground level; it might as well be sand for all the nutrition it has.

[@rockinmoshin]

Fast food without the benefits? What benefits

[@NoobNoobNews]

Social security.

[@ericbourgeois2092]

The Fire Service in rural areas or even urban- rural interface areas, the volunteers are getting older, and no young people are taking their place. In the area where i am a firefighter we serve a pouplation of 150,000 people with 5 volunteer firehouses and 2 paid city fire department. There will be nights where none of the volunteer firehouses get out on calls meaning there are only 2 or 3 fire trucks to handle a house fire coning from the paid city fire deparmtnents which can be a 45 minute response time to remote areas of the county. If only the residents that live in our run area knew that they may not get a fire truck when they call 911 after 6 PM in the evening or on the weekends or holidays, I bet they would be pushing our County for more paid fire and rescue staff. Our firehouse is only staffed by paid professional firefighters from 6 AM to 6 PM Monday through Friday excluding any holiday holidays. The EMS service in our county there are parts of our county where it will take 25 to 30 minutes for an ambulance to respond to at night because the amount of avaiable ambulances are reduced at night time.

[@warthog473]

It's getting too difficult to commit to a volunteer position. So many jobs want you available 24/7 and God help you if you turn off that cell phone or don't read your emails right away. People are working more and more hours, working two jobs. Bosses want you to be able to come in at a moment's notice and get ferociously pissed if you can't. Towns and cities are going to have to suck it up and commit to paying full time professional firefighters and EMTs.

[@colinpapendick5628]

It was nice to have the chair story stuck in the middle there. Lol.

[@gastonzabala8477]

i cant believe that the word "amazon" was used in two stories with a completely different meaning

[@jamesboulger8705]

The Amazon corporation can generate its own weather patterns 😂

[@tibedog5629]

The US Banking system. You all have no idea how bad it is behind the scenes. We're holding it together with chicken wire and double sided tape. I tell people constantly to invest in what Gremlins 2 told folks. Canned goods and shotguns.

[@FourthIdentity-gu2zk]

The postal service isnt supposed to make a profit, its a service. And no, it will not collapse or end people have been saying that for decades but i promise you as long as bills exist so will the postal service.

[@johnhancock1748]

"the pay is comparable to fast food jobs, without the benefits" Bro what fast food job did you have? Benefits? 😂😂

[@adamscottprice]

Am I the only one that feels like this is one big scam? Living a life of luxury off of money earned from lending it to other people (usury) is a burden on society. All of this cost cutting and under investment is a result of investors (ie money lenders) demanding their interest payments and increases in share values.

[@lizs606]

Who could it beee now?

[@trinstonmichaels7062]

The world is hadding to the worst state it has been in decades.

[@charlesmcclure8000]

Technically we're there. The only thing that the great depression has on today is the unemployment rate

[@orthodox-mp6hv]

@@charlesmcclure8000 With Ai around we will surpass that metric as well...

[@Commodore22345]

@@charlesmcclure8000 Only if you go by the official government numbers. However, the government nowadays manipulates unemployment numbers to make them look lower mostly for political posturing. For example, they don't count people that have been out of work for 6 months or longer in the unemployment statistics, even if they are still actively seeking employment. They also don't count people who have been put out of work due to physical or mental disabilities. Once you factor in all those types of people, the unemployment rate is pretty close to Great Depression levels.

[@TheDyingSoldier5]

Goddamn, this video certainly made me absolutely fear for the near future, and scares me for what my son and other children will face if all this just keeps getting worse

[@TwoDou]

Story 61: Yeah same. I can't help but notice it every time I go to get ice cream there with my gf. Something really needs to be done about it before someone(s) gets seriously hurt

[@only1life88]

@twodou you tying to fight at the icecreak sy

[@allisterlobo7107]

The fly ash reduction is actually a really good thing. I've been waiting for an opportunity to invest in mass timber buildings

[@cloudian159]

You know how banana flavored candy doesn't taste like bananas. Well the reason for that is because it tastes like an old banana variant that was the most common and used. It was wiped out in less than a decade by a fungus that is resistant to pretty much everything. Well that same fungus has been found now attacking our current banana variant so it adapted and is threatening the banana supply again.

[@geraldbouvy1222]

Why spend money on upkeep of our nation when iraq and ukriane need rebuilt? (Especially, when rebuilding iraq can make billions disappear without questions, vs. Protects in america are scrutinized, making corruption difficult)

[@66Roses]

Story 18. While most of the stuff here is nightmarish, this one puts a smile on my face. Live services can get bent.

[@Pontiacfender]

I feel like all those old folk conspiring of how the risk with very accurate consequences of society failing as a whole were not as far off as we all thought. We called them all crazy. Now, years later with them leaving this world, we are finding them to be not so far off from what we are anticipating by the outcome today.

[@lynnbrockel]

and they left it this way

[@rhythmisataenzler]

The worst thing is that noone seems to realize the potential in all the feared A.I. related layoffs. Every person that no longer has a job because of A.I. could work in the industries that are having trouble with people not wanting to do them. Offer retraining and reeducation programs and make the industries more attractive for new employees and protect them from exploitation and see how many people want to work in trades/crafts or the healthcare public service industry. I know that me personally I would have loved to go into a crafts or healthcare if I knew that I could have a healthy work life balance and a competitive income.

[@SecuR0M]

The good news is that AI is about to croak in the next decade. Just in time to hire a bunch of new people for entry level jobs I guess.

[@ARealFoxxoBean]

​@@SecuR0M assuming WE don't all croak lmao

[@SecuR0M]

@@ARealFoxxoBean Nah it'll be a hot minute. All the industries replacing entry level with AI will just implode. The guys who don't spring on AI will get that W if they can survive. Which leaves like...healthcare, mfg, and food services I suppose.

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

Nobody seems to want to hear that large language models have literally been taken as far as they can go - the big ones have been trained on just about everything that has ever been written (that survived long enough to be eaten by google books) and are merely aspirating their own vomit. Gooooood times!

[@SecuR0M]

@@ARealFoxxoBean I don't know what this means by in a couple years AI will be worse than Cleverbot due to paucity of real training data

[@X139T]

No reason to be scared.. it will all be over soon, let’s just enjoy it while we’re here. There’s not much time left.

[@123MrDenideni]

yeah, we are cooked

[@chiapets2594]

Apocalypse yappers aren't yall

[@doom7ish]

The apocalypse is coming

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

​@@chiapets2594you are commenting this on a 45 minute video illustrating dozens of real life Apocalypse scenarios on the immediate horizon. Willfully ignorant yapper, aren't y'all?

[@SecuR0M]

Nitrogen and plastic sacks are basically free. 👍

[@xanderunderwoods3363]

Man, this makes me so happy to live in Alaska with abundant food, energy, operational off grid power and water, functional small farm and greenhouse, self made ammunition, welding equipment for boats and farming equipment, meat and fish storage, and more. This kind of living is very common here in Alaska. It's funny because I go back and forth between Alaska and Singapore, and in my travels around the world seems to be the only truly functioning modern country, no matter where you go in Europe, Asia, Africa, or the Americas, there's not a single City I've been to that remotely compared to Singapore. There's a reason it's a number one and almost every single measurable category. Which is so interesting because then I come to Alaska that where I live is about as government free as you can possibly get while still being inside a functioning government, completely opposite of Singapore, and I love both places. Both systems work but in very different ways, but they both work. Anywho, this video kind of gave me some introspection into how differently I really live. Also I exclusively believe in home schooling, I do not trust public schools to provide proper education to make kids competitive, wise, and skills rich in the modern era. Something else both Alaska and Singapore provide ample support for.

[@grantwalkersound]

How about this one... The only source of pure quartz large enough to supply the integrated chip industry is in Spruce Pine, NC which got devastated by the hurricane. Their water treatment plant is basically gone and might takes years to replace. I can't find any updates on the functionality of the mine, but the town is almost uninhabitable now... So I'd imagine it's putting the mine at risk of operation or maybe has even shut down temporarily. This will cause a delayed supply constraint crisis for the IC manufacturers in the next year or so.

[@crisco362]

I'll worry about ai when it can pronounce words correctly in youtube reddot videos.

[@unknownkingdom]

Democracy

[@seriouspisces]

remind me again why we in the US need to spend 800billion dollars a year on a military that we refuse to even actually use.

[@robirvine6970]

Because it stops you needing to use it

[@iotatq3728]

Because If we do use military, this whole planet will be nothing but craters. It's our way of telling the world to "fck around and find out"

[@augustus5151]

Blame the UN and our allies

[@nikkinite6868]

Oh they use it... to kill civilians

[@TQFMTradingStrategies]

It’s about the implication.

[@DBL6Domino]

The AI thing is such a bubble, especially for tech. And it's going to explode. It's going produce so much shitty code, companies are going to rush to hire engineers.

[@michaelgerow3161]

I gotta stop watching these videos before bed they are so depressing and most likely will cause low-key nightmares

[@XxTheTrueCrimexX]

The nightmares don't worry about. But yes they will cause depression. Find things that make you happy because everything is temporary. That's all we got homie. Just be happy that were alive and also happy that we aren't here eternally. It's an experience for sure!

[@Schattennebel]

I hope I can still write and publish my storys even with all that Ai content that may come out in the future.

[@halogeek6]

you wont. ai is already taking jobs from writers. this video is prime example.

[@shadowmaster335]

Ahh yes, the day when a book is stamped with "made by humans"

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

If you can write a better story, we'll give it a shot

[@Schattennebel]

Well, I rather fail while trying then never trying at all and asking myself if I should have try,

[@kylequinn1963]

Canada.

[@yellowredblue]

Dude these are really good. I will be using these for podcast material during chores. Thank you!

[@four-en-tee]

So the economy? We're debatably in stagflation rn.

[@rabd3721]

Capitalist greed is entering the "find out" phase after effing around for so long.

[@stinkymccheese8010]

How bout the US?

[@No-oc5dc]

The family issue parts are a particularly sad. My parents suffered a divorce when I was 12, and of course it hurt me and my sister in Waze that are hard to put into words. My dad brother, my uncle told my father he was a disgrace to our family. My dad has done everything and beyond to stand up and be there for me and my sister through everything even when my mother decided to make some poor decisions he was always there for us. He always took us to church and always always always. Blood is not thicker than water, my friends whoever said that, must’ve been a toxic person. I pray for my uncle, but I’m debating on whether I wait until my dad passes to tell him that what he said to my father less than human..

[@roguedragon9992]

Blood is thicker than water is supposed to mean the opposite of what everybody thinks it means. The friends you shed blood with during battle tend to be closer to you than the waters of your birth.

[@saphironkindris]

Most countries are closer to collapse and just barely treading water than people would like to admit.

[@BurdineSchab]

great video! i really appreciate the depth of the examples you shared. but honestly, can we talk about how some of these "dangerously close to collapse" places might actually just be dramatized for views? like, is that really what we want to focus on, or are we just feeding into a culture of hype?

[@KrazeAndFriends]

Ah yes, Corporate. We are on our way to cyberpunk 77

[@Cxa24-o4p]

Myself and the United States

[@Blakkrazor69]

The USD.

[@DeathMetalDerf]

My mental and physical health.

[@andrewberna4045]

My patience.

[@tdthib5530]

My life. It's falling apart quickly. And there is nothing I can do to stop it.

[@vueher4965]

We are running out of soil

[@owenthomas5103]

Small scale architect/builders. My dad is a "jack-of-all-traides" kind of architectural/atructural/planning/energy adviser to dozens of small buliding ferms in a rural area. I tryed to follow in his footsteps but geting all the qualifications/licenses required at todays prices would cost close to a million£. Theirs no way these small rural developers can afford an individual adviser for each disiplin so when my dads generation retires the industry is screwed.

[@chrislail3824]

I’m glad that I’m almost 50, got to live through the best parts of humanity, and no get to see the beginning of the end. I’ll get out before it gets too bad.

[@keiffitz689]

Most infrastructure