Why The U.S. Is Running Out Of Everything

[@JesusLover3412]

People are having "fewer children," partially, because the cost of living, cost of groceries, and cost of gas, is climbing to an all time high .

[@1LuvMLPFiM]

The dating market has deteriorated as well.

[@samylynch5185]

I don’t see it as a bad thing. The more we populate, the more food, water and land we consume. The rise in poverty. People have children they can’t afford to take care of.

[@victoriataylor5584]

Lord KNOWS how expensive it is to raise a child.

[@victoriataylor5584]

Not only that, it's because of that Agenda 21. The "One Child," policy.

[@victoriataylor5584]

@@curtisducati that too.

[@MsOudlover]

It's about time people start to appreciate the importance of agriculture.

[@politicjunkee]

The supply chain issues were designed by the global elites seeking a New World Order. Everything we are currently experiencing was done on purpose.

[@simplelife4019]

Permakulture

[@beavinator420]

They wont, theyre not even worth sustaining i say inject em all

[@katem6562]

Yes I wish governments would prioritise keeping agricultural land for agriculture instead of ‘planting’ houses! The idea property as an alternative to a pension or financial instrument is critically short sighted compared to instead of investing money in sustainable development and innovation.

[@koilamaoh4238]

@@politicjunkee Easy there naze... Its always the jewish people to blame with you white christians.

[@Falconlibrary]

The shortage of intelligence, long-range planning, and simple human compassion are our most pressing problems.

[@stinger15au]

It's called capitalism. 500 years of good but now outdated and bad for the world. The answer to every question of "how could this happen" is capitalism.

[@oiinahgiiusadurrybrahchuck7209]

@@stinger15au astute.

[@bigbrother787]

I would agree with you if everyone had a say in how things were run but we don't. A few people tell everyone else what to do and I think that's the most pressing problem.

[@danielma179]

especially in washington dc

[@acking1502]

Heavy on the shortage of intelligence.

[@Unkn0.n]

The problem is that everything became about money instead of using our resources wisely in building tech that would help the world.

[@casecold1864]

Exactly, spot on my friend. And it's sad.

[@imanjones3807]

It's called greed

[@SovereignTroll]

Actually the resources might include USA corporations selling to China or others instead of our Own needs.

[@redclayscholar620]

That sounds deep if you're a teenager. The reality of the situation is that people generally want to take care of themselves and do better for themselves. This requires resources and nobody is going to get you those resources without compensation.

[@SaffyKaffy]

Duh... the 1% are notably greedy!

[@lynnmckenney1987]

"people are having fewer children" *Fails to address the fact that cost of living and inflation are insanely high, while wages have not kept up with them for decades*.

[@liak.6778]

They didn't fail to address it. They outright ignored it. Facts don't support their reckless breeding narrative.

[@chihirostargazer6573]

people are having fewer children but still the human population has tripled in the last 70 yrs. There are too many of us consuming and polluting at an alarming rate. Natural resources are limited.

[@RS-ls7mm]

That's just the excuse that people give. The real reason that I find is that they just don't want kids, either out of fear or the responsibility. Women now value careers over kids, pretty much a path to future poverty.

[@KOS762]

EVERY company out there is a rip off artist. There is not ONE business that worries about the worker, his family and his expenses. If your not getting the money you need to support your family, its time to quit and move on. Tell the boss, I am a professional in my field, but if you don't pay me, what I am worth, your can look else where. I am here to support my family, not fill your pockets full of money. If you can understand that, then maybe we will get along. If not, don't waste my time.

[@kennethpollard9047]

Fiat currency ended this way throughout history, but it will end differently this time. Insanity.

[@mikegrizzle3014]

"we're going to run out of innovators and inventors" Maybe you should either do one of 2 things. Stop making it so prohibitively expensive to obtain a degree, or make more professions accessible to self educated people via a test based application and waive degree requirements.

[@reitmanigor8560]

100%! Imagine if Einstein, Meitner, Huxley, Von Neumann or mme Curie would have to flip burgers and doing stupid online jobs, and still paying 2/3 of income just for housing, and dreaming about "maybe next year I'll get to college". BTW, the Ancient Greek civilization had fewer people altogether than ....let's say greater-L.A.

[@thetogo2962]

Move to Florida. Tuition is low for college. Call your governors to lower state tuition or raise the issue of unaffordable tuitions.

[@kimjones2056]

You don’t have to have a college degree to be an inventor.

[@reitmanigor8560]

@@kimjones2056 it depends, you need to have access to resources and information, you need a degree or money to get it. The recent changes in the US and EU education/research system makes it nearly impossible to do research without constant push for higher academic titles. No government or private company would sponsor your research if your team has no PhDs.

[@tinygreatness]

In the US you can challenge individual courses for credit. Unfortunately, you have to pay full fees for the course you tested out of. It saves time, but not money.

[@patrick014]

I have worked in supply chain logistics for 20 plus years and it is not that we are running out of anything it is being diverted somewhere else or intentionally slowed to cause supply chain issues

[@MarioWendorf]

Bingo

[@BMG19FUNNYDIE]

Like gasoline? The game is rigged. Corps are making their money back post Covid.

[@classiccare9073]

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[@rahulfzd1]

The factor of supply demand always a big game in global market.

[@ultrabee7103]

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[@Beezer.D.B.]

Maybe, just maybe, our economy shouldn’t be based so heavily on consumerism and mass consumption. All the problems we now face, from data mining to environmental issues to waste management is all a byproduct of basing everything on trying get that population to buy things they don’t really need.

[@user-ii4zf5iq3t]

Amen!

[@calebcoffey7955]

But how else are billionaires going to get their 20th yacht or 10 mansion?

[@Beezer.D.B.]

@@calebcoffey7955 - They probably wouldn’t want to admit it, but aren’t they trapped at being the biggest consumers of all? They obviously aren’t happy at just being “comfortable” or ever having enough. More, must have more. They just want more expensive things that they don’t need.

[@UserUser-ke4ti]

Who did you vote for?

[@Beezer.D.B.]

@@UserUser-ke4ti - Are you asking me? If so, I don’t know how that question fits in? Basic Snake Oil Sales 101 goes back long before there ever was a left or right.

[@cruzanmongoose]

Not a mention that companies are engineering products to fail.. Things that used to last 20 years last 10 or less just an example.

[@Leangreen69]

@@rbacklas This throw away society is a generational issue. Some young men don’t know how to work with their hands because some of their fathers were too lazy to pass down that wisdom. We can’t be an efficient society if generations aren’t passing down knowledge.

[@cruzanmongoose]

@@rbacklas Dude you are so wrong!!!! sure nothing last forever, but things were built way better in the past, everything from building materials to furniture, appliances electronics, vehicles, tools, pretty much everything was built to last longer than it is today. the metals now have such bad alloy mixes they rust out faster, the plywood in the past was way better, the trees they use now are young trees and the layers of veneer delaminate because the glues they use are crap. where have you been!!!! I could name literally hundreds of products and materials that are crap today compared to the past. The reason things are thrown away is because they are in most cases designed to be thrown away. take furniture for example a company will make a nice looking piece of furniture with some decent wood, but will put important structural parts that are made out of particle board into the piece of furniture that will fail so the whole piece of furniture has to be thrown away because it's to much work to repair. TVs used to last way longer in the past your lucky if a TV last more than 5 years now in in the past they use to last like 15 years. Washing machines used to last 20 years now with the cheap plastic automated lock system that keeps breaking and all the other things that go wrong with them they only last for 5 to ten years. I could go on and on in great detail but not going to waste my time

[@cruzanmongoose]

@@rbacklas I built all our furniture, windows doors, kitchen and many other things out of solid West Indian mahogany from scratch. Rated best wood in the world, I got the mahogany trees and milled all the stock and did all my own designs. not to mention I did 3 foot thick stone walls that surround it all with hand picked rocks of all different colors.. I got tired of replacing windows furniture, kitchens, vanities and so on with the crap they build now days. even most of the high end stuff is designed to fail now.. Sure they had crap back in the 80's but now the stuff is even worse now!!!! their is no quality control anymore and it get worse year by year. This is the wood I use, everything I build is 100 percent solid stock. West Indian Mahogany AKA know as Cuban mahogany last forever.. I have slabbed wood from hurricane Hugo that's been sitting in the weather for 32 years and is solid as the day I milled it.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaSsc4mYg8aUf5o

[@cruzanmongoose]

@Bigby Wolf Yep the consumers are getting ripped off

[@MisterUrbanWorld]

@@rbacklas I don't know how to change a tire and im in my early 30s, but to be fair i rarely drive.

[@austinhernandez2716]

Many companies throw stuff away and will call the cops on you if you go in their dumpsters to use it and reduce waste. Many cities, like my hometown and college town I live in now, it's illegal to collect waste. Only the private local dumpster companies can, so they basically got a monopoly. And it results in a ton of things getting wasted. Doesn't stop me though... Edit: If you want to know, I mainly look for scrap metal. But sometimes people throw away stuff like clothes, furniture, working appliances, etc. There's lots of things I've found that I use. The best thing I found was a sports bag with Nike shoes, including L23s and Air Jordans, and I kept them because they're my size

[@sunkesulashahan]

the evil is too much they can make a law that those thrown in such a manner can be distributed to the needy and they can even create repair shops and jobs on them,they can even create recycling plants and employ people with basic free simple training,for that they need to make land available for cheap which is another constraint.they can make laws to utilize free lands or take lands to utilize them for low costs

[@Rhanz2021]

Thats a disgusting way of dealing with extra stuff. But thanks for giving me a idea. (Im not gonna do anything stupid.

[@DieNibelungenliad]

Is the dumpster owned by a private individual or by the government?

[@liak.6778]

@@DieNibelungenliad Mostly private companies. All retailers and fast food chains have so much waste that could be repurchased but they won't allow that because it doesn't bring in more profit.

[@BrendaFosterMedia]

I know a few dumpster divers! 👍

[@HelamanGile]

"Rubber ducks are plastic" I've been lied to my whole life!

[@nonwilson5587]

Hahaha.

[@willengel2458]

there are rubber ducks and plastic ducks.

[@ritaranee4787]

True

[@beavinator420]

Its always the opposite of what youre taught. Just think about 9/11 and who really did that. Go ask israel

[@trigoria7477]

@@willengel2458 what??

[@thediktatortot9645]

I refuse to bring children into a world that I myself can barely survive in.

[@kimhernandez1221]

Preach

[@Amethyst_Dragon_]

Same

[@stewartknoll2338]

Likewise

[@rgmademekblocksavedme2174]

Ok

[@stewartknoll2338]

@@ni12907 the same god that murdered children by the hundreds in the first few chapters, right? Yeah, huge family guy

[@saifulizhan]

I live in Malaysia. A country once the biggest producer of worlds natural rubber. My dad late cousin once owned 50 acres of rubber trees in the rubber haydays of the 80s. Sadly after the mid 90s people started not paying much for natural rubbers. Many rubber farmers gave up and switch to oil palms which were more lucrative. Until today people are still not paying decent price to rubber planters. No farmer in his right mind would plant rubber.

[@MisterUrbanWorld]

I never knew you could "plant" rubber and never heard of rubber trees. No one in the USA has ever mentioned it.

[@deetor5551]

Well they should all get planting them rubber trees now look at what's happening now.

[@lilwavesz]

@@deetor5551 if they’re not getting paid enough to offset the cost of taking care of the rubber trees, they’d be going into debt to make the West happy … doesn’t sound like a fair exchange

[@marionky]

@@MisterUrbanWorld Haven’t you ever heard the song lyrics “Everyone knows an ant can’t move a rubber tree plant”?

[@nicholasutopia]

@@MisterUrbanWorld the only thing u hear everyday are lies from your governments and I would say ur government and all its cronies are pretty successful in keeping their people dumb and slaved. If there is any chance, just go out of your country, go see the world, go see the real truth👍

[@saturn724]

In the past having babies means more wealth for the family, as soon as the kid hits puberty he/she becomes economically meaningful for the family (in farming or other professions). In the modern day having babies means more financial burdens, a net negative on the family's wealth. This is probably the first time in history where having kids means losing wealth rather than gaining (for the family itself at least).

[@silentwatcher1455]

Having babies don't gain any wealth but more expenses.

[@saturn724]

@Markus Patients One sees what he wants to see when there is in mind a pre-conceived notion.

[@johno9399]

It's because America's elections are all bought with dollars by servants of satan... America is under satan's power... All democracies are for sale... that's why America wants to overthrow all countries that satan cannot buy with dollars.

[@22lilacsky]

In most states, having more kids means a ton of food stamps and help from the gov.

[@charlescoryn9614]

@Markus Patients ......... Curious you should mention that, as I just read that originally the Southern slaveowners prohibited their slaves from having babies, and just bought more slaves from Africa. But then it occurred to them..... duh!...... that they wouldn't have to 'buy' more slaves if they just let them reproduce naturally........

[@niyadanyalle]

I'm sure the American public school system has failed me. The internet has taught me more than I have learned in all my school days and this was super informative and educational.

[@beavinator420]

Israel and 9/11

[@futuretense6058]

Sorry I meant food is wasted

[@billy6pack887]

@@beavinator420 Saudis, Israel and Bush + all had a hand in it.

[@barklordofthesith2997]

Public school systems are there to make you an obedient slave, nothing more.

[@Amzzyvlogs]

It's not just a america thing , it's same everywhere

[@Sara-yz7nc]

Everything boils down to "but for a moment, we created massive profits to our shareholders".

[@falcontomto]

We all literally need every country for everything: Southeast Asia from rubber, plastic and oil from oil countries including Russia, and not long ago I just learned that Ukraine is also playing an important role in the production of semiconductors, not to mention all the food we import from and export to every country. How is it still not abundantly clear that we as humans are better stand TOGETHER than against each other?

[@petermages9482]

If we work together, we want need the US Doller anymore.

[@spiritfree5050]

sound Like commie talk to me

[@falcontomto]

​@@spiritfree5050 it doesn't mean we have to distribute every resource evenly to everyone free of charge.

[@zeriel9148]

This is the result of relying on others. Being a slave is not a good thing. Seek self-reliance.

[@falcontomto]

@@zeriel9148 while people should be independent to some certain extent, complete self-reliance is not the answer. things as common as a smartphone needs materials from all over the world to make it, and without cheap labour from some Southeast Asian countries, it would never be this affordable in our time. some well-developed countries like Japan don't have enough farmland to feed their people and must rely on importing food from outsides, yet only with them kept well-fed can we enjoy electronics, games and anime like the one you use for your profile pic. none of these is even possible without people cooperating, so let's not pretend otherwise.

[@2017NationalChamps]

The people most likely to raise a healthy well adjusted child are the least likely to have them.

[@rickricky5626]

true

[@danieldaniels7571]

Yep. Then you got guys like me getting drunk and knocking up women crazy enough to sleep with me.

[@interdimensionaldrift]

@@danieldaniels7571 That can’t be many women, but hold your 🥜 to the microwave would do good for the world! 🤣

[@bgoodfella7413]

Only stupid people are breeding.

[@tisjustangie]

@@danieldaniels7571 well you... You should probably fix that

[@blueman1470]

“We need more kids and innovators” Next “Our planet is at its max population”

[@piaz2023]

Yep, we’re playing a numbers game and birthing 1000 babies in hopes of getting one innovator. Instead we should create innovators and invest in education…even if that means tuition-free university for all.

[@veronicameeks9056]

No unborn baby would have had the potential to cure cancer with this education system.

[@derrick7648]

That’s the thing we need more useful people not just children being cranked out for the bonus welfare check which is what we are getting mostly. For every 10 children maybe one of them will be useful to the planet so a lot of people need to stop breeding and other ones need to start

[@CreatingAlong]

@@veronicameeks9056 Also curing cancer is illegal (according to big pharma)

[@generalharness8266]

@@piaz2023 Disagree with free university until the drop kick subjects are removed.

[@DrDLightful]

When I was little I remember my 6th grade science teacher saying that the most the world can support is about 8 billion people before we start running out of everything (didn't elaborate how). I'm starting to think the old dude was right.

[@azargelin]

The world can support more, the problem is most of the world is reliant on just in time manufacturing, i think we only have 90 days worth of food stock pile before everything goes down hill, one problem in the supply chain well cause the entire system to fall

[@desertmoonlee6631]

@@azargelin problem is the world run by rich idiots

[@shanmcdonough2933]

I heard there are very few humans compared to capacity- study maps - not representative to actual land maps - countries represented aren't shown in actual sizes

[@shanmcdonough2933]

One day you will be exhausted of the dire consequences- one day

[@solabonafide]

The world can only support about half of that - 4 billion.

[@ReneePosthuma22]

How are they talking about consumerism being good and important for the economy and then turning around and saying we should consume like India so we don't stretch the world's resources... Maybe the better question is, why have we got used to economies driven by overconsumption?!

[@speedingoffence]

The 'why' of it isn't complicated. We like to have stuff. Why do we need a thing? Because we don't have it, that's why!

[@Niko-nd7ce]

@@speedingoffence you're almost there the why is because there are people who want to be super wealthy and in control of others. most of us don't want stuff but we've been told we do, that we need things. if you take a step back, you dont need or want more than what u need

[@joepopplewell680]

Because advancement is often driven by overconsumption. If everything lasts for a long time, then everyone has one, and the makers of those things go out of business.

[@speedingoffence]

@@Niko-nd7ce I think that's a bit of a cop-out. Sure, there are the people that you mention, but we're all to blame here. I'm sure there's at least three things within your reach right now that you didn't need.

[@sirpieman300]

The big rich need the silly poor people to stop using all THERE resources :)

[@TimeBucks]

We need to be more sustainable

[@vasilemariangiarap7005]

Foarte bun

[@jordicarvajal2834]

The reason why we're running out of everything is because of corporate greed of American capitalism. As prices are rising, corporations are making record profits. For example, the meat industry is dominated by only 4 giant corporations. With very little competition, these 4 companies can dictate prices and the entire meat industry. There is no labor shortage, it's a living wage shortage. There is a shortage of jobs that pay living wages.

[@charleshines1553]

Capitalism is a sickening word these days. That is because the scalpers are using it as an excuse to jack prices way above what they should be. The can all burn in Hell for all I care!!

[@oiinahgiiusadurrybrahchuck7209]

@@jordicarvajal2834 all signs point to this being exactly what capitalism amounts to.

[@calipinoypride823]

it’s because when your unemployed you get free 1000$ support from government monthly Why work when you get free money from government for being unemployed

[@langcheng5443]

@@calipinoypride823 spam spam

[@seantyler7401]

Capitalism is the reason your phone is so cheap. Without Chinese slave labor you wouldn’t have a phone. You’re welcome

[@EyFmS]

There are so many alternatives out there to replace every product imaginable and these "panics" are always created by special interests. We need to stop reliying on monopolies over key markets, the lobbying from corporations will do more harm to the progress of humanity in the long run. We need to diversify our alternatives.

[@freakinfrugal5268]

I think Dr. Seuss tried to educate us about this with The Lorax.

[@adamson5779]

Now, let's revisit, who was it that said, "be fruitful and multiply?"

[@l.e.brentwood3137]

@@adamson5779 😑..

[@daynedosher3658]

Maybe that's why they took him off the shelf

[@flint2302]

They took him off the shelf because everyone sucks and they turned into a bunch of pansy ass bags of flesh

[@Felix2001G]

My mother went to a four-year university. Her tuition for her entire four years was $3200.00. FOUR YEARS! Now, you can't pay for books and two classes at most with 3200.00 bucks. No one can afford to broaden their education when it's so unattainable at this point because of costs-unfortunate times.

[@tedrice1026]

Gotta have huge buildings, sports stadiums, highly paid administrators but use barely paid "adjunct professors" to do the actual teaching!

[@mariekatherine5238]

Learn a trade. Enroll in Job Corps if eligible. Set up your own apprenticeship. Enlist in the military and get an MOS that’s going to be useful when you get out. Stay home and work full time. Combine your income to help support your family. That’s how most cultures did it except in the US. Traditional college right out of high school isn’t a feasible model. You come out with few job options and with huge loans.

[@brendykes6599]

Actually, pretty much anyone can learn whatever they want if they have internet access.

[@tedrice1026]

@@brendykes6599 True enough, but I would leave brain surgery out of that.

[@XMYeks]

@@mariekatherine5238 yes let me enlist into the military for free college rather than have my taxes pay for it

[@adventurec1923]

Nobody mentioned how small players of this industry is being crushed. I used to own a coconut farm and as time goes by the price for my crops are getting low and you were right, a bottle of your extra virgin coconut oil cost a limb quite literally on us, farmers perspective. Nobody cares about the farmers, not even the local government. The giant corporations takes it all. This is not just about bugs on crops... just watching this video makes my heart aches a little.

[@nurse01peace15]

I think the governments of the world are trying to collapse all small business in favour of mega corporations they can control. I am so sorry about what you are going through.

[@TheBooban]

Why isn’t prices reflecting supply and demand for you? Is there a monopoly and you can only sell to one distributor?

[@epgui]

Everyone talks about that all the time, so maybe they wanted to focus on things that are less talked about.

[@nurse01peace15]

@@epgui I wasn’t criticizing- it’s just what I noticed first.

[@philhealey449]

What barriers stopped you processing and packaging your product and selling to the end consumer to take the profit from the whole supply chain ?

[@TheyRiseBand]

Declining population goes hand-in-hand with declining economic prospects. By the time my parents (late Silent generation) were 25, in the mid-60s, they had a house, kid, car, etc. all on one income, without college degrees. That is impossible, today. Wages haven't kept pace with productivity or prices for 50 years. Until that changes, expect more population decline.

[@paularobinson4358]

Work ethic also hasn't kept the pace. Too many expecting 30 bucks an hour for unskilled labor when they cant tell you who we fought to earn our independence. Elementary and high school education hasn't kept the pace. We graduate useless idiots to indoctrinate them while they remain stupid. There is no job shortage. There is a labor shortage and it's a lack of labor participation, not lack of people without jobs.

[@khalidalali186]

Just last week. I read that America has a surplus of over 3.1 million jobs for its unemployed masses, and that’s the surplus, after the other millions of jobs covers ever single unemployed person in the nation. I wish I was in America 😂

[@erikk77]

All the more good reason to invest in rail. Steel wheels on steel rails has virtually no friction, is extremely energy efficient, takes many of trucks off the roads, and reduces pollution.

[@270eman]

Shhh. We just gotta add 20 more lanes to the freeway bro.

[@firstlast8190]

CNBC: steel shortage!!!

[@Racko.]

STOP! You're going to scare the people who want more "freedom lanes" added to rEduCe trAffic!

[@LMNSeason]

We really need those raw metals from Russia then.

[@birdness]

No friction? WTF are you talking about?

[@TheQueenPsChannel]

Translation: the economic pipeline depends on new consumers being birthed.

[@chihirostargazer6573]

new "consumers" = new brainwashed slaves.

[@thisisdoodoobaby]

Seriously, the way they talked about declining birth rates was strange. Seemed like they had to frame everything in terms of capitalism like people's only value in life is how much wealth they can generate.

[@RKELLY79]

Trucking is a huge factor and the fact that truckers are under appreciated, this is just the beginning

[@Sprinklebesties]

We had invested in wars around the world instead of manufacturing , growth and economy and now we are paying very high price. And more wars continue . We dont learn anything do we .

[@ZentaBon]

Unfortunately investing in manufacturing simply lowers the price they can sell things for. But manufacturing for wars? That's very profitable. Corporations follow money like flies follow rotting meat. Anything else is theatrics.

[@ultrabee7103]

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[@tonimartin6167]

The Military Industry controls the USA

[@knrdvmmlbkkn]

"We had invested in wars around the world instead of manufacturing , growth and economy and now we are paying very high price." That's "American exceptionalism" and "Manifest destiny" - being exceptionally stupid and destined to failure. What a pathetic country!

[@khankrum1]

In declining populatiom. People simply can not affor to have children. The wealth inequality has seen to that!

[@jonnyw82]

No, it’s just due to urbanization and secularization.

[@MrMexicanteddybear]

@@jonnyw82 read the book jackpot

[@marczhu7473]

@@jonnyw82 if you are responsible you educate child and give the best condition unless you are like the dumb in idiocracy.

[@Crashed131963]

Declining? There was 4.3 billion people in 1980 and we are at 8 billion today. 10 billion is forecasted in 2050. Look at a world population graph .

[@1HeatWalk]

If I am a leader, I want the population to lower especially if more jobs are going to be done my machines. Less jobless people means less people want me dead in a revolution for change.

[@kaywin15]

Working for a company with insanely good management. I realized that if you have an extremely smart & experienced purchaser, your company will get through tough times easily. While our competitors were struggling with keeping up inventory, our company had a near fill rate close to 90%

[@youdoyou3053]

what company is that? im curious

[@JPPSrules]

What industry?

[@chloewinnaa1515]

What comdustry?

[@maggietaskila8606]

When I was a kid like 60 years ago the reason for changing from glass containers to plastic because we were running out of sand. We were also told we were headed into a ice age. Where I live that seems more plausible then global warming.

[@AddMoreQuarters]

Running out of sand? Lol. They must have sounded so ridiculous.

[@user-zc2hz3yj2k]

@@AddMoreQuarters Not all sand can be turned into glass. So, yes.. You should look more into it.

[@wildernessisland2573]

We are running out of sand, yes

[@peadookie]

Considering that most gloves are latex-free (made from nitrile, a synthetic rubber), and this article said "the PPE you're wearing," I wonder how well vetted this story was.

[@commonomics]

It’s a fear mongering story

[@w00tsy]

While I mostly agree, I think natural rubber is a larger source than you are thinking. Cursory searches on Google show of world consumption is ~40% is natural rubber.

[@osis254318686]

About 3:30 minutes in they literally say sometimes natural rubbers are needed. I wonder if someone like C M is doing the opposite of fear mongering and just dismissing any problems as fear mongering.

[@classiccare9073]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4OkmJ-vrJusic0

[@Kevin-cy2dr]

Fear mongering,they just want to control you. They know most people are waking up and silently protesting by quitting jobs,not having kids,not buying unnecessary junk,etc so they want to reverse it by creating fear so that most people would buy more.

[@Exo594-b5v]

People are not a "resource". People are the reason we treat everything else in life as "resources" and why we even *do anything* in the first place. The economy should work for the people, not the people for the economy.

[@taylorelliott244]

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

[@yourdedcat-qr7ln]

@@taylorelliott244 he's right

[@kel2infinity]

I mean, technically in economics people can be viewed as resources as labour is a resource

[@pink1536]

The US isn't running out of people. We're running out of jobs that pay livable wages.

[@calipinoypride823]

Uh no it’s because when your unemployed you get free 1000$ support from government monthly Why work when you get free money from government for being unemployed

[@jordicarvajal2834]

Exactly

[@angrydragonslayer]

@@calipinoypride823 i have talked to people who had a minimum wage job when they were in their 20s And they were paid $20-30 per hour when adjusted for buying power A minimum wage job today pays $7.25 for reference

[@vanderumd11]

@@calipinoypride823 who can live on that lol not saying it's needed but we spend billions on bs

[@TheAcadianGuy]

@@calipinoypride823 1000$ a month? Unless u wanna live in absolute poverty, no way in hell u can live off that small amount.

[@erinsontavarez5809]

"People and aspectual media outlets need to stop overexagerating a bit, that is with the titles". Love you each.

[@jmd1743]

Birth rates aren't a problem. If they were a problem then you wouldn't see a housing shortage crisis with older generations dying off. People are going to have to accept that we built too much of everything. Imagine saying we need higher birth rates to produce more low skilled retail labor. The primary arguments for higher birth rates is producing more low skilled labor & to pay for pensions, none of that benefits young adults who're starting out in life. Right now businesses are trying to force their workforce back into the offices because the business owners paid a lot of money for them or are locked into multi year contracts. Does it benefit the workforce to keep the soul crushing rat race ongoing? no.

[@einCAA]

Birth rates are a problem. But right now the old people arent old enough to solve the housing crisis.

[@Nathan-Higgers_13]

@Skynet wrong

[@asdkotable]

@likexbread "infinite growth" necessitates infinite workers and infinite consumers. 🤷 And if people think that the latter two are untenable and unsustainable... Then we have to admit that the current ideology of "infinite economic growth" isn't sustainable either, but I don't think people are ready to accept that

[@einCAA]

@likexbread Different kind of issues. For the sake of our environment it would be better if at least 6 billion people would just drop dead. But if there aren't enough children, then we don't have enough people working in care for the rising percentage of old people. Then we also don't have enough people to generate our pensions.... If the birth rate is too low, that means poverty for everyone involved :(

[@eitkoml]

There is a massive shortage of affordable housing.

[@verakhym]

This is what happens when you give money and power to people who don't give a damn about anyone or anything besides themselves. Like they didn't know they weren't destroying habitats and livelihoods of wherever they were sourcing their products as a company? There's no excuse so terrible!

[@gabby.maya11]

Yep, it’s tragic

[@j.s.8250]

Hi Vera.....Nobody dont give to him Money and Power (The Fed is the head)They oun everything with Cabal together and they control Cia.....and all the finance WORLD....Dont worry they gona Keep still the Power and money....you can not give and can not take.....even if you Close a FED......Do you?

[@yoursubconscious]

@@j.s.8250 - what? 😵‍💫

[@j.s.8250]

@@yoursubconscious The Fed is the head of the snack....what....what do yo dont understand?and you are not vera?or ?

[@j.s.8250]

@@yoursubconscious if you nothing understand.....go to Peter Schiff ....he exolain you.....where the Evil come......Ask Peter Schiff ....

[@shaolinclips]

Kids are too expensive. Imagine having a kid that has complications from birth, now you're stuck with million dollar bill cause our healthcare is awsome

[@gerardinecizmar]

I don't think many people realize just what it costs to raise a child. I'm 57 so my 4 kids are adults but I still spent a lot on them. I couldn't imagine doing that at this point in time unless my income was doubled.

[@jamesnguyen7069]

eh... i see so many w 3-5 kids... and they can somehow do it... but i getcha

[@theRealJohnWayneGacy]

We're totally reliant on fertilizer, pesticides, and GMOs. I'd say we've exceeded carrying capacity.

[@anandawijesinghe6298]

But, why do we need to increase economic activity for its own sake, beyond what is needed to assure those people who do live a comfortable life? There is a big fallacy in this basic premise ! Furthermore, advances in technology should be geared to making as small an impact on the environment and its natural resources. It should not be devoted to doing more and more things we do not need!

[@sleverlight]

Exactly most companies want to have endless economic gain, but that doesn't work because resource in this world is limited. You can see it with Iphones every 2 years they bring a new one. So to put a goal for example people living comfortably is enough rather than endless economic gain is better.

[@ACryin_Shame]

@@curtisducati why on earth would coal powered, child slave labor, toxic lithium batteries be an improvement? Because they call it green? That's all it takes to dupe people in 2021. amazin

[@Paccekabuddha]

Start by getting rid of planned obsolescense

[@johnpablo2772]

Because they don’t want local businesses to strive Instead of letting some farmer or somebody else local build up a LOCAL grocery store in their community they’ll just give Walmart a 200m dollar loan to set up shop Example instead of letting the farmer that plant food sell his food to the public that lives right around him They’ll rather he sell it to a company like food lion

[@mariocipollini1998]

Because jobs!

[@blipblop92]

The world has been built on a fine piece of line that any disruption will cause everything to fall. It makes me value more of everything i own and the hard work all the people have put into it

[@whereswaldo5740]

So there’s five of us.

[@rpraetor]

It's called just-in-time manufacturing. It exists because inventory is taxed, otherwise companies would stockpile materials as a tax dodge.

[@Mattrino101]

yeah, its called globalism and it does not work. Countries should look to being self sufficient and take care of themselves. Trump had it right with being energy independent.

[@dtraveler3080]

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[@raystxxr]

@@Mattrino101 I’m not a trump supporter but I agree with you

[@carlogomez8210]

Did this reporter really just do a ton of research on sand, yet doesn't know that sand is used in CONCRETE production and not cement production

[@AStri-zg5xc]

Aggregates 👍

[@MariaDeigo8]

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[@MariaDeigo8]

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[@whitneyhouston6888]

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[@MariaDeigo8]

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[@MariaDeigo8]

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[@MariaGarcia-gv8hj]

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[@vivianlandrum8507]

Not just a decent living for the farmers, but an awesome living! We need our farmers.

[@johnsmith-cw3wo]

let the market solve that... supply and demand... you know... right wing capitalism.

[@genkiferal7178]

@@johnsmith-cw3wo fascism is the problem in the US. when corporations rae partners - even if behind the scenes - that is fascism.

[@veganconservative1109]

Paul Harvey had the best take on farmers.

[@genkiferal7178]

@@veganconservative1109 the digital ID (with the CBDC) will be the end of freedom for all citizens in the world and these videos prove it is already beginning: kzbin.info/aero/PL4lJhCVHQTEJy7E9VKVxLmYnTUftIg4No

[@z.s3072]

FEAR. Shortages. FEAR. War. Fear. Covid. Fear. It's too much man, too much media, too much BS, too much garbage sensationalism. As a wise man once said.."too much booty for one man to handle" -DJ Feli Fell ...On a side note, not once, not a single damn time that the media stated something was in a shortage could I not find readily accessible.

[@moodlampActual]

Meanwhile grocery chains are continuing to make record profits according to their profit season reports. They're gloating about how they don't have to deliver as much to stores on purpose and not having any sales, shrinkflation implementation, and straight up arbitrary price hikes.

[@maricel0602]

Blame Biden!

[@RadicalforGod]

@@maricel0602 he’s not acting alone

[@davidlafleche1142]

How do you know

[@alliWLC2013]

Grocery stores don’t have a high profit margin...their costs are going up and that’s why prices are higher

[@moodlampActual]

@@alliWLC2013 record profits are record profits. If they wanna brag about it, then I'm not gonna feel bad about their costs.

[@Nisanex]

The smurfs are out there somewhere having an emergency meeting

[@davidr9883]

Poor rubber prices have killed the rubber market for decades. The farmers make nothing compared to every other person in the supply chain.

[@pureenergy4578]

I saw that in a video about rubber. The people in the rubber fields were not making enough money, so had to stop. Maybe that was in this video

[@1TrueGem]

This is typical for farmers of any type. 😔

[@stanthompson9379]

Yup someone else said it already but I was gonna say the same that this is typical for almost all farmers even in the illegal drug markets for example all the farmers actually growing the poppy’s or coca leaves who work the hardest in that whole supply chain make next to nothing and literally everyone else above them makes ridiculous amounts of money.

[@AndyGraceMedia]

Of course! The deeper the supply chain, the more distorted it becomes as the system becomes ever more financialized. You get margin compression at the bottom of the chain but margin expansion at the top. It's a typical example of how printing money in one economy has a long term net negative effect on multiple economies. Eventually the dynamics of the chain is broken. The top is so heavy it collapses under its own weight. Pretty logical if you think about it, but logic and economics have never really been highly correlated because its core is politics rather than any branch of mathematics.

[@dvdragon]

Infinite Economic Growth is something that the planet disagrees with.

[@bigbrother787]

I think the issue is less about infinite economic growth, more with infinite *unregulated* growth. Regulated growth is good, like how an ecosystem or an animal can grow and develop. Unregulated growth is bad, for example cancer.

[@dvdragon]

@@bigbrother787 True.

[@lahabitaciondelatrapado4621]

That just shows you don't know anything about how the economy works. You can even trade words. Psychologists, comedians and politicians do that.

[@robertross45]

Infinite economic growth that only benefits the people at the top.

[@ryanortiz2648]

Reasons why a degrowth economy is needed.

[@domdrty]

Most of our foods are grown from fewer genetically diverse variations (corn, etc). This is a huge problem based upon the same reasons there is rubber shortages...

[@jbarton1541]

One thing this video get horribly wrong is the amount of Natural Rubber in products. There are certain products that have very high Natural Rubber content but tires and shoes no longer have that much. Tires have a lot of what are essentially plastics and other compounds added to increase durability and traction and you would be hard pressed to find shoes with a real rubber sole.

[@Portia620]

Man will destroy himself and it’s slowly starting to unravel.

[@jeremyc4811]

I love the incredulous exclamations about how people are "making rubber from plants!" Rubber always came from plants.

[@dontbestupid6664]

It’s made from oil too.

[@veronicameeks9056]

They went through a 5 minute explanation about how rubber comes from tress and then we’re like “but researchers in the US are making rubber from plants!” Hahaha Is a tree not a plant anymore?

[@ultrabee7103]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZbGkGaXdsiHbJo🙏

[@bannisher]

I'm in my late 30's. We had one kid.... anymore is madness.

[@silo3com]

Congratulations on the milestone brother. A child is a blessing in our age .

[@jusaverage6347]

Why do we need to keep growing as a population? Is it ok to plateau and maintain that same amount? Maybe it's something that we need to consider when facing all these other issues. If we don't get away from this "More, more, more" attitude then nothing will be left. I think it's ok to have a sustainable population versus a population that just continues to grow and grow, consuming everything and more.

[@zionsky3342]

You dont know what your talking about mate.

[@ubernerrd]

You just described the entire problem with capitalism.

[@RollingThunder5880]

Don't worry about the population. The covid vaccine will take care of it. As it was designed to do.

[@zionsky3342]

@@RollingThunder5880 it's not a vaccine it's gene therapy.

[@zionsky3342]

Population collapse more concerning than over population. Over population can be solved with better systems and education. Population collapse can't be fixed with anything. Once your in that hell... there's no fixing it for another few generation's which you wouldn't be alive to see.

[@newyearcloud5955]

Thanks for the Xtra information

[@ЕвгенийПрохоров-ю4с]

Brliliant! Nothing said about wealth inequality, monopolization of production capacities, lobbism and overall crisis of world capitalism. Sure, it is women, who should "produce" more labor-force-units (a.k.a. birth more children), not all the monopolies that should be nationalised to cut off nonsensical resourse spendings for profits of 1% and stabilise the living conditions of 99% of american population. --- Ecological problems are not problems of the growing world population, its about overproduction, marketing and consumerism. Its about capitalistic world system that had exhausted its own capacities to grow further.

[@floof7680]

Finally someone who knows

[@DieNibelungenliad]

True.

[@carlitapacita8138]

Smartest comment on this video, absolutely true 👍

[@k1ddish]

Thank you CNBC for fueling anxiety and stress. We are now educated and aware of impending doom.

[@TheTruthSeeker756]

Lol

[@F15CEAGLE]

Maranatha!

[@keithskoglund10]

Reasons why you shouldn’t watch the news. You could have gone on with your day never seeing this and been happy. Your life would be no different either way

[@DzR1591]

@@keithskoglund10 right... Ive never been into politics untill this Putin guy started his litltle invasion but then I think of what the US government has done and it makes me go insane.. Out Governments arr definitely ran by maniacs and lunatics

[@classiccare9073]

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[@tanyagerard7904]

Wow, they got the population issue completely wrong. Africa alone is expected to quadruple the population by the end of this century. She should have interviewed David Attenborough or Jane Goodall, not a few economists who have never left the city.

[@rpraetor]

It's white supremacy and hardline nationalism coded into the news. Why are we so bad at this? I guess we never had to overthrow one of our own before, the "democracy" excuse keeps people hopeful that it can change.

[@regenerative-stories]

that CEO looks at people as consumers and business. Sadly there are too many like him. too many economylovers and technology prayers.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

Not to worry, they get to move to European based countries where they can live off the success of those countries

[@MelissaR784]

@@rpraetor The term is Liberal Hegemony. Hegemony means to dominate. Since the end of the cold war, the bankers, globalist, Cabal, the Democrat Socialist of America, WEF (same people-different names) have been organizing for years for this very moment to enforce The Great Reset. They create conflict using racism, blaming white supremacy, nationalism when they themselves are behind it all. It's liberals who think they're superior.

[@MRMAN-wb1tv]

@@arthurbrumagem3844 What success? The only success they've had was pillaging from Africa.

[@liak.6778]

Bring more jobs back to this country and protect the supply lines. Everyone still in their child bearing years should heavily consider using any and all birth control options available and not have any more babies. Bringing a child into this kind of mess would just be cruel and irresponsible. I know a lot of people didn't plan to have babies only for everything to turn into a horror show but we need to be smarter about procreation. At least every other week some media outlet publishes a story about how we aren't having enough babies to keep the economy going. Well, no one in their right mind is going to consider having a baby now if it means that both parents and child will be suffering. When things improve, consider the possibility of babies again until then, no more babies. More people need to start having gardens and taking an interest in agriculture. We also need to start raising more of stink about how we are taxed at the federal, state and local levels. Taxation without representation is theft committed by a corrupt and repugnant governing body. What the rest of the world does is their problem. We have too many of our own problems here that are being blatantly ignored by a self serving government.

[@Barbara-jn2gw]

Red Ophelia. Well.said.

[@AddMoreQuarters]

Or just abstain all together.

[@AddMoreQuarters]

....and you nailed it. Line for line. I learner the hard way 15yrs ago.

[@nickgamingmusic9911]

29:25 This guy knows the main reason. It's entirely economical reasons after decades of corporate greed unlike the wages in the 50s 60s

[@Ryan-qr8yl]

Wow, is this the reason why feminism is being fueled?

[@oiinahgiiusadurrybrahchuck7209]

@@Ryan-qr8yl wot.

[@TheSterlingArcher16]

Corporate greed is a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory.

[@aarongeorge6233]

Yeah Ryan. Now you're understanding. They've effectively enslaved the population by pushing feminism and diluting wages, then diluting the currency.

[@joefuckingflacco11tds-0int4]

@@TheSterlingArcher16 False

[@JanineStoryteller]

Sadly the idea of all the elderly have money that they will pass down is a falicy. They aren't being taken care of by their children (for many practical reasons) anymore. They are living in nursing homes who take all their money first, then government takes over for the next 20 years. If they are able to live on their own longer, the social security check doesn't go far in this economy since it's a fixed income. So the idea of having all the money is inaccurate.

[@endgovernmentextremism]

You go from laughing at people and calling them conspiracy theorists for encouraging people to prepare while they have time, to creating panic overnight. Millions of people know what you are, what you're doing, and why you're doing it.

[@smithhoowe]

Truth, but the short attention spans of the sheeple do not allow for any recourse. Get politics out of education, and stop legislating what I do with my child, my body, my career, and my future...then maybe people will not be so brainwashed and pay some attention. The News is a form of entertainment by companies, its up to the individual to have the integrity to search for the truth amongst a sea of lies, but trust must be earned and is ill kept.

[@JohnTheRevelator11]

Right here. This conversation.

[@ensignmjs7058]

Look at you! Striking down CNBC with your vicious comments.

[@tuckerbugeater]

But they can't stop: biowarfare, weather modification, and weapons that are coming. Now rage away or start coping.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@ensignmjs7058 You've successfully defended the global elite. When do you get a reward?

[@jumboMIDGET]

The problem is government

[@Tarasyoutube]

The costs are too high to have kids (the wages are too low iow) but what about clean water, water wars, pollution, consuming, global warming etc. Noone brings this up when they say "keep breeding'. They also are fine with institutional care for infants. 9-5 job (who does that anymore) means 8-6 your infant gets raised by a stranger who gets paid way less than you usually. Their day is so full of 'putting out fires' 15 diapers 3x a day, 15 babies napping at once , yogurt and applesauce and snot off tables and plates and spoons, (3 people but remember lunch and breaks for 3) that is all the love your infant toddler gets for a whopping 7.50-12 an hour. Corporations don't want kids who care and voila, a daycare where noone is is perfect for that.

[@bluewaters3100]

There are regulations for babies and toddlers in daycare. One person per 2 babies. But I do get your point. It used to be that grandparents took care of the kids while the parents worked. My daughter worked for a few years and I took care of my 2 granddaughters. Their dad wiorked at home and was in the garage or in his office but he was always available to say hi and eat lunch. I did not take any money so they were able to get their business going and my daughter is now a stay at home mom (she was a teacher). She is now part of a homeschool group and is happier! Any teachers at her school had grandparents who took care of their kids while they worked. They work to eventual get a pension when they retire I think. I personally could not take my kids to a daycare and was lucky enough to be a stay at home mom ho could always volunteer for things at their school.

[@jwfcp]

Proportionally only so many jobs are going to be skilled labor at any sample size, and paradoxically, the low skill things are the ones that rank as "essential".

[@Pupkiwi]

Most of the "supply chain shortages" are actually intentional. Most large companies horde supplies and dish out in low quantity, hence the inflation. Since their #1 priority is an influx of income, they get to raise the prices for the products they hide from the public. There isn't an oil shortage, only 8-10% of US-bought oil comes from Russia. Companies see profits from hoarding their own goods due to war and general struggles.

[@lifeissweet9826]

Oh yes. Grocery stores keep popular items in their warehouse and put out inferior store brands. Then they bring back popular food at higher prices. They think the consumer doesn't know what they're doing. Yes we know.

[@lifeissweet9826]

@Collen Flarity it's not a conspiracy it's called corrupt business practices. Good grief.

[@TL-pk2gh]

We don’t always need to be having more and more people. We need to be more sustainable. Idk why they always wanna grow the population 🙄

[@Radhaun]

Because capitalism demands infinite growth. If you want infinite growth, you need a growing population to support the work force and act as consumers. Infinite growth really isn't realistic, but try telling the people who like seeing lines go up

[@bigbrother787]

@@Radhaun I think the issue is less about infinite economic growth, more with infinite *unregulated* growth. Regulated growth is good, like how an ecosystem or an animal can grow and develop. Unregulated growth is bad, for example cancer.

[@M0neyp0t]

@@Radhaun Using fake money aka fiat currency is not real capitalism. The consequences of using fake money is inflation, housing bubbles, overpopulation and shortages of raw materials and food.

[@danieldaniels7571]

@@M0neyp0t I agree. And as someone who has struggled with varying levels of poverty my whole life, I’m quite ready to watch all those bubbles burst.

[@oiinahgiiusadurrybrahchuck7209]

@@bigbrother787 you can only grow so far. The infinite growth is the issue alone, regulations are another aspect, but it’s basic physics to understand that nothing can expand perpetually. Least of all when the steam runs out (like dwindling population growth). The modern world’s economic understanding is entirely reliant on growth to support profits/prosperity. It’s a glaring issue

[@FLIP205]

That’s the United States fault. Let companies move overseas. Not trying to produce products we need here in the US.

[@Food4thought1234]

It’s capitalism and it’s MINDSET. Mainly it’s MINDSET.

[@seana806]

I saw this coming as far back as 2013 and 2014 since all it took was a disturbance in the supply chain and was a domino effect since supply chain after supply chain would have grinded to a near haunt since a majority of US manufacturing has been outsourced to other countries.

[@redwhite_040]

It's the same in Europe. Maximum profit so our supply chains are at the other side of the world.

[@TheZachary86]

Did you even watch the video? It’s broken into 3 parts - rubber, sand and population. The first one, US never had a natural advantage. Raw materials is concentrated in south east Asia and highly affected by disruptions The second one is sand as raw material, again it’s becoming scarce. There’s no “outsourcing” here in the video

[@Andreas4696]

You got it wrong. It's not the US that's running out of resources. It's the world.

[@Radhaun]

Funny that social security has turned from "a little addition to your pension" to "my parents retirement plan". If the government would stop stealing from our coffers, we might not be running so short.

[@royhuang9715]

Neoliberalism working as intended.

[@Me97202]

It’s not taxing millionaires, billionaires and corporations enough for the reason why we’re running short. Social Security is something we were all forced to pay into for our entire working lives. So people are entitled to get their Social Security money back.

[@ChiCityLady]

It has more to do with people living longer than expected when SS taxes were calculated. On average, Americans used to die earlier, meaning their years of drawing from SS were fewer. However, as medicine has improved, they now live longer. But that also means they draw from SS more years than was originally planned for. On top of that baby boomers have begun to retire so the ratio of retirees drawing from SS vs workers contributing to SS is decreasing. The taxes for SS actually should've been raised decades ago, but it's unpopular politically so politicians have always kicked the SS bill further down the road.

[@aaronhoy3410]

@@ChiCityLady SS taxes were raised to deal with baby boomers back in 1983... benefits were cut as well. If they just eliminated the income cap on SS taxes that would solve something like 75%-80% of the funding issue. If they eliminated the cap while not associated benefits to the taxes paid on [x] income adjusted annually [say like above $400,000 or so initially,] it would likely solve the entirety of it.

[@loozer72]

To everyone who panics about slowing population growth: it can happen now more gently, or later more catostrophically

[@mackereltabbie]

Why panic? Just use the tried-and-true method: give women equality, an education and reproductive freedom, and population growth will slow down PDQ

[@casecold1864]

The word panic is overused, we in our luxurious lives don't even know what real panic is, yet. It will come.

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

For babies I think it is a conscious choice not to have kids not a biological infertility crisis.

[@xenosaiyan-8106]

With prices going up, having kids is difficult

[@generalshepherd457]

The trailer parks are full of thriving families with a lot of children.

[@caseyporter499]

@@xenosaiyan-8106 nah that’s not the reason lol. On AVG the more industrialized the country the less children and the longer the lifespan. Look at Somalia, Kenya, Zimbabwe etc popping out 10 kids a lady lol

[@tisjustangie]

I think its both, there's been a few studies saying that birth control being flushed into the waters (sewers, rivers, tap) has increased infertility rates

[@keithskoglund10]

Im 28 (male), make over $100k, and just don’t like or want anything to do with kids. My gf doesn’t want them either and it’s peaceful knowing we won’t contribute to this type of world.

[@eitkoml]

If you want millennials and zoomers to have more kids, you need to make housing more affordable, make numerous other things more affordable (like healthcare), and increase wages to cover costs and make up for decades of wage stagnation and decline in real wages. Then the wages need to increase to cover inflation. That and forgive the student loans that millennials and zoomers were misinformed and miseducated into taking; in a society that made it a de facto requirement to go to university. Of course I would also add lessons in school covering personal finance, especially the powerful effects of compounding interest on debts and investments. Repeat it over and over again like they repeatedly tell kids in school to use condoms, which also contributes to the low birth rates. Also get university costs under control. The costs per student were far lower in 1970 and the class of 1970 were not under educated. They had less worthless garbage like worthless administrators and bloated bureaucracy driving up costs while not contributing to students' education or professors' research.

[@jordicarvajal2834]

I wonder what will be the future for generation z.

[@VoteForBukele]

Shipping containers or space jockeys.

[@blueredbrick]

Yes the cost of housing is the elephant in the room. It has become obscene.

[@Falconlibrary]

"They" (the US oligarchs) are not going to do that unless we force them. Isn't their plan clear? Strip anything of value from the United States, squirrel it away in other countries, and leave what's left to rot and ruin. They've been doing it for forty years now and we haven't lifted a finger to stop them.

[@richardrose9943]

That’s the thing they don’t want more rugrats the elite want more space for themselves along with more wealth ai will replace most ppl

[@MrRapmaster19]

Unregulated Capitalism is a bane to all humanity. We need regulations in place to fix all these shortages, but especially people shortages.

[@jordicarvajal2834]

We need more that jobs that pay living wages, a majority of jobs are low paying jobs. With many unable to afford higher education due to rise of tuition, many need jobs that don't require a college degree that pays well and in some cases train you.

[@SicSemperTyrannisx9]

Just make shortages illegal. I love it.

[@danieldaniels7571]

Crony capitalism is the problem more so that unregulated capitalism. Currently we have regulated capitalism, but it’s regulated by the biggest players to the detriment of the rest.

[@speedingoffence]

Those regulations already exist. They're just not enforced.

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

Can ya stop blaming these "-ism" ideologies. Its humans being schmuck greedy. Regulations can be bypassed. We don't really need more people! Maybe we just need better people that have compassion. We don't need anymore industrialized freaking growth!

[@sifridbassoon]

I live in Dallas. I'm retired, but by no means rich. I just came back from the grocery story. It was packed with food. The only time I ever see empty shelves is late at night when they are being restocked.

[@erikmedina6966]

I'm not worried about the lack of rubber trees that will be replenished in a few year. I worry about sand, mineral and even water shortages

[@duckweedy]

If climate changes continue the rate they are doing who knows whether the trees will continue to thrive.

[@bobrobert6277]

there is plenty of sand just need to dig it up , make it more expensive

[@slslbbn4096]

What is bring censored in most of our media outlets is that the US tariffs on China are driving up a large proportion of costs and inflation here in America. And that was before the recent oil price spikes. It's gonna get worse but this regime would do everything but admit that

[@jaynestagg922]

Try bees.......without them ....end of food.

[@simplecode2555]

why worry we are an overrated species let the Anthropocene chapter close for good

[@justaguy6100]

The presumption we "need children being born" to be the next generation of innovators is outrageous. There are PLENTY of people on this earth, and PLENTY of people with the skills and vision to keep us moving forward tor several generations. It's not at all like there are no children being born, there are quite a few. We don't even consider the ravages of climate change on future generations and having MORE children is guaranteeing them a harsh, perhaps deadly, future, ravaged by famine and drought.

[@littlebird3495]

You’ve really drank the kool-aide

[@justaguy6100]

@Little Birdbrain IF you have a refutation of the statement above, state it. Earth *is a finite resource* that part is obvious, and 140 MILLION babies are born each year. Too many will be experiencing poverty and deprivation because of drought, food and water shortages, problems with sanitation, already. Increased birthrates are ONLY for the benefit of consumerism and those that profit from it. Now, if you actually have, or are capable, of a cogent response, I'll look forward to the discussion. If all you have is parroting pathetic Facebook snarks then skulk away before I really hurt your feelings.

[@duncanbug]

Having children if you aren’t able to afford it won’t make them innovators. How many “innovators” can’t afford education and are working awful jobs. I bet a lot actually.

[@justaguy6100]

@@duncanbug I think we agree there completely

[@karlasouza6104]

Exactly!!! Perfectly explained. Innovation is not related to the size of the population as much as the quality of education and life, innovation takes time, and people need well paid jobs and not suffer from anxiety attacks at 30 because their rent alone takes 2/3 of their income, to be able to innovate people need time to wonder and try. Less people means more opportunities and better quality of life. And any in balance can be level with immigration, the US needs to establish a point and merit immigration system (like Canada) to select according to the qualifications and industry requirements for the economy. For example Ukrainian refugees are educated people with degrees, PhDs, they already speak English, share the same values, etc.. Those are some quality refugees the US needs to attract.

[@jameshaluska7644]

But America's politicians never run out of excuses for their failures.

[@johnj8514]

Greed and corruption is what causes the failures they make excuses for. Term limits and outlawing legal bribery (lobbying) should have BEEN DONE , years ago. Good place to start.

I know.

[@ClannerJake]

@@johnj8514 how about even the playing field. and just outlaw anyone from making or receiving in compensations any cash or asset amount totaling over a million dollars a year, in cash or assets, leased or owned either domestically or foreign. nobody needs a billion dollars, all they do is spend it trying to wreck someone else's stock portfolio meanwhile pension funds go bankrupt; and if a load of robin hood users do it, they get forced out the door. then if corporations were making insane cash nobody at the top could smile about their massive stock options, corporate kick backs, benefits and salary

[@iNdUsTrIaLrOcKeR4U]

Ten tons of sand to make one ton of cement? Where did the other 9 tons of sand or more vanish to??

[@paulfickes3319]

we aren't "running out" of stuff, we're just "buying" more. remember.

[@sunkesulashahan]

the trick of the government is to make you bankrupt

[@wildsane203]

Exactly, consumerism is what is killing humanity but we don’t want to change our ways.

[@nonamedpleb]

After watching all those "The U.S. Is Running Out Of X" videos on this channel, I just had to giggle when you finally just made a video titled The U.S. Is Running Out Of Everything.

[@zachheynen5649]

Sounds like we need to fix unfettered capitalism first and worry less about growing capital and more about sustaining our planet and population. We need an overhaul on our entire economic and political system to allow people to still live and make income while preserving our planet and not solely fixating and feeding the corporate greed machine.

[@lavorr_reply_account4017]

Most people settle for what they are comfortable with instead of pushing limits.

[@jaysoncarter5093]

Sand is a big deal. I grew up on my mother's beach in Samoa. Every year I'd watch the sand get moved out beyond the reef at 'winter', and, return every year. If that sand was mined off of our beach, or, just past the reef we'd be screwed because it removes the barrier provided seasonally when it's washed back in by the Sea

[@fatalritte1550]

Fewer babies means less consumption. Nobody seems to want to use the “U” word, “UNSUSTAINABLE”..

[@jennysteves]

Yes. Or the O word .. Overshoot.

[@Abbyyena]

They want me to have a child so in the future they can buy a shirt?! Silly. It’s not like we are under producing things.

[@shanecorreia]

Lost me in the first few moments when someone said ‘rubberpocolypse.’ Featuring click bait in an era that seems like the world is going through enough doesn’t need hyperbole. I can relate to the frustration with media choices.

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

What a cheesy line. News channels need to stop trying to pretend to be cute and just stick to the facts.

[@lightly-red-huedmaleindivi6266]

They lost me with the narrator who sounds like a teenage girl. Seriously what is this, a high school powerpoint presentation?

[@sunkesulashahan]

they can start growing rubber crops farms and make money create jobs a people of 100 can do that.in the same manner they can start on other things in the similar manner and create employment

[@serenity1047]

Agriculture should be taught worldwide in schools

[@raphaeldouglas9361]

Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose-is the result of hard work and hustle over time.

[@tianalucas8147]

Yeah! I agree with you sir.If you want to be successful have the mindset of the rich, spend less and invest More. Don't give up your dreams.

[@juliagoncalves4082]

@@tianalucas8147 People come here with the aim of chasing money more than knowledge and that will damage your progress, trust me. Chase knowledge first and I promise! The money will follow you just like it's following some of us now.

[@sabrinaslime4493]

@@juliagoncalves4082 That's very correct And that is why most of them end up losing they money don't be in a haste to invest. Know what and who you are investing to and be sure that the person will deliver before I n v e s t I n g. Learn and get the knowledge first before investing..

[@sabrinaslime4493]

People wants to do what the 99% does but wants to get results that are fit for the 1%, but it doesn't work that way

[@JuanVillegas.]

@@sabrinaslime4493 Investment is the quickest path to financial freedom, the rich stays rich by spending like the poor yet investing! While the poor stays poor by spending like the rich yet not investing.

[@menguardingtheirownwallets6791]

About lack of births: EVERYONE, and I mean everyone that I know and talk with every day, complain about how their school debts are crushing them and how jobs are almost impossible to find, and the few that you can get don't pay the bills. The result is that they can barely survive, let alone have a kid. If you want people to have kids then you have to pay them double of what you are paying them now. It really is as simple as that.

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

There is truth in what you say.

[@CarbideSC]

And when you double wages then you will increase CPI and such and be right back in the same situation. We are all competing for the same limited resources. Reality is, whether you like it or not, that the main culprit of fertility rate decline is educated women / women in the workplace. Western women have chosen to forgo children for an education and a paycheck and there really isn't a solution for that. Those women are competing in the workplace and increasing labor supply. Before anyone gets triggered, understand that both men and women can work. Only women can have children. This is the catch 22.

[@edgaraf9411]

@@CarbideSC except many families won't be able to afford living without two incomes

[@karlabritfeld7104]

This is capitalism run amok.

[@TheGoodContent37]

9:09 "Developing rubber....FROM PLANTS!" Dude, do you even know how rubber is made?! It already comes from a freaking tree which is a plant!

[@fennecfoxfanatic]

a different kind of plant. Its like getting maple syrup from a tomato plant.

[@TheGoodContent37]

@@fennecfoxfanatic But she said it as if rubber didn't come from plants, that's the point! She obviously ignored where it came from.

[@Crashed131963]

How did Germany fight ww2 without rubber? They sure did not have it shipped in from Asia past the US ,and British navies. Did German Army trucks,planes and cars have wooden wheels?

[@jeremyloveslinux]

@@Crashed131963 synthetic derived from oil

[@Crashed131963]

@@jeremyloveslinux Even German oil was synthetic by late war time. Hard to believe in 2022 we still need a rubber tree.

[@flovv9357]

"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know." - Pema Chodron

[@ibrahimanis8399]

I think recycling is the solution. There is a huge gap between the remaining resources and the waste that we throw, burn or bury. It may be understandable that recycling is weak in some developing countries, but what about the strongest consumer economy in the world?

[@chrism8180]

Recycling isn't practical for many things.

[@terriesmith2616]

Women and men are not having kids because everything has become unaffordable. Everything is so expensive now that to bring a child into the world, just to that child struggle, is a very bad idea. People with common sense will not allow a child to subject to that harsh life. When one is poor, it's a very hard way to live. Only people without common sense (who are poor) continue to have kids after kids, letting the tax payer subsidized the rearing of their children. It's unfair to the tax payers and it's unfair to the children who have to suffer such harsh life. People need to think and prepare BEFORE they bring an innocent child into the world.

[@nickolasbrown3342]

by your logic, "people with common sense" will breed themselves out of existence.

[@terriesmith2616]

@@nickolasbrown3342 If they can't afford to raise a child without welfare, then yes, if extinction is the case then so be it. It's not fair to bring a child into the world only to have it suffer and it's not fair when other people have to subsidized the raising of your child. Welfare is there to help people get a leg up (for a short amount of time), it's not there for people to be on it generationally or indefinitely. But dumb people breed everyday, so I highly doubt the population will go extinct anytime soon. Why are you so triggered? Are you on welfare, is that why? Just wondering.

[@joaopedroalbernaz]

Next CNBC videos: "We face a air shortage", "We face a trash shortage" and "we face a shortage shortage"

[@Terminator0815Sm]

lol hahaha

[@catvisiontv855]

Why dont the governments pay them grants to do this work?

[@C6BD]

Reporter : "We'll make plant-based rubber" Rubber tree : "And what am I?"

[@tungsten2009]

ngl they had us for a sec

[@viviangall1786]

investment today will be your saviour tomorrow, the earlier we no this the better 4 all

[@chris-pj7rk]

It's true - I'm still at the beginning but trying to learn all I can to figure out the best focus I should have to invest in myself through crypto. Consistancy is something I need to do for sure - the hard part is seeing exactly where my focus should be! Back to the basics with DCA I guess and then just keep working on my other ideas and learning all I can!

[@claradidi7573]

Yeah unfortunately enough I learned the DCA lesson the hard way. but good thing I learned it nonetheless

[@viviangall1786]

Technical

[@bobbygunz9254]

@@viviangall1786 How do I get across to her.

[@viviangall1786]

@@bobbygunz9254 Frankly I didn't do much at all she did all the work, but best you reach out to her cuz there isn't much we can say on Someone's youtube video so that it doesn't seem like we are