Decline of Functioning Society
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Listening to the real red pill podcasts has been a great thing for me. I no longer waste my time watching news or following politics, except financial news to know if my nest egg will be impacted and if so, how to best handle the situation. All the wasted energy dreaming up how to fix this system, from within it, or defending policies, or being angry over the situation, has been channeled into much better things. The fake two-party system is designed to trap you into wasting your energy on these fruitless endeavors.
I didn't have much hopes for Trump, but I thought he would at least make the economy decent for 18 months, then let the bottom drop out so the DNC could take the house and have more fake "two party infighting" again.
Nope, just a trash economy out of the gate and no design to fix it.
Nope, just a trash economy out of the gate and no design to fix it.
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I wanted to start a new thread to document the quality of life collapse in the west. If voting were to change it, we would at least see positive movement when one party is in control. We have never seen that sustained enough for that party to even stay in control. Obviously gridlock and the excuse that comes with it, is what the men who really run this country desire.
So, this isn't a thread to discuss the perversion that is leftism and the culture impacts of it. This is to discuss the quickening pace of quality of life drop in the USA. Housing costs, lack of job opportunities, Wall Street importing scab labor to receive large bonuses, and the results in our lives thereafter. STEM degree graduate sleeping in cars. Formally safe neighborhoods being turned upside down by legal immigration. COL v. Income over the last few decades. This is where rubber meets the road collapse. Tangible and measurable collapse of quality of our life, not the girl with purple hair raging out at her part time job. People who have done it right, and still struggle due to the severe drop in our quality of life. Healthcare costs, broken roads, military struggling, electrical grid problems, water plant failures, we need a thread to keep track of this and not just blame it on "liberals".
The USD is collapsing right now. Part of the reason is printing money to compete in the new Arms Race v. China, AI. AI seems to be the final battle, whomever wins this battle will be the lone superpower. And China is way out in front. If you following investing at all, the very shady moves in the last few weeks that have caused the stock market to explode in value all look like a giant shell game. Oracle invests billions into OpenAI with an agreement OpenAI will provide for Oracle down the road, and Oracle goes up 35% in one day. Microsoft, Meta, and other large tech companies follow suit and their stock values then explode. OpenAI then makes a deal with Nvidia to buy their chips and then Nvidia makes a deal to sell chips cheaper to OpenAI. Then Nvidia becomes the largest cap company in the world with a value over $5 trillion.
Here is where reality meets fiat currency debasement...
So, this isn't a thread to discuss the perversion that is leftism and the culture impacts of it. This is to discuss the quickening pace of quality of life drop in the USA. Housing costs, lack of job opportunities, Wall Street importing scab labor to receive large bonuses, and the results in our lives thereafter. STEM degree graduate sleeping in cars. Formally safe neighborhoods being turned upside down by legal immigration. COL v. Income over the last few decades. This is where rubber meets the road collapse. Tangible and measurable collapse of quality of our life, not the girl with purple hair raging out at her part time job. People who have done it right, and still struggle due to the severe drop in our quality of life. Healthcare costs, broken roads, military struggling, electrical grid problems, water plant failures, we need a thread to keep track of this and not just blame it on "liberals".
The USD is collapsing right now. Part of the reason is printing money to compete in the new Arms Race v. China, AI. AI seems to be the final battle, whomever wins this battle will be the lone superpower. And China is way out in front. If you following investing at all, the very shady moves in the last few weeks that have caused the stock market to explode in value all look like a giant shell game. Oracle invests billions into OpenAI with an agreement OpenAI will provide for Oracle down the road, and Oracle goes up 35% in one day. Microsoft, Meta, and other large tech companies follow suit and their stock values then explode. OpenAI then makes a deal with Nvidia to buy their chips and then Nvidia makes a deal to sell chips cheaper to OpenAI. Then Nvidia becomes the largest cap company in the world with a value over $5 trillion.
Here is where reality meets fiat currency debasement...
Not H-1B's, just the ability to outsource labor and not have to pay a tax on it, with no answer from either party.
The precious metals thread will answer most of your questions. Quality of life in the West is declining because Western man has forgotten what wealth creation actually means — and has substituted fiat currency in its place. This shift runs fundamentally at odds with private property rights, capitalism, and genuine economic growth.
For thousands of years, our political and economic systems evolved to protect private property — not out of sentimentality, but because secure ownership incentivizes citizens to create new wealth. Wealth creation means producing something that didn’t exist before. For most of American history, that’s exactly what our economy did, raising living standards for all; as more wealth was created, everyone benefited.
But since the 1970s and 80s, we’ve drifted from those fundamentals. Fiat currency, persistent inflation, and the gradual erosion of property rights have distorted incentives. If inflation and taxes continually devour the fruits of one’s labor, why strive to produce more? It’s no surprise that many people now simply aim to get by rather than build.
Today, Americans still acquire wealth, but they no longer create it. Much of the economy has become zero-sum — dominated by rent-seeking, administrative bloat, and artificial jobs that exist largely to sustain appearances. Meanwhile, roughly 60% of economic activity is now sustained by government spending, directly or indirectly. No real wealth emerges from this cycle; it’s simply redistribution — shuffling what already exists, with each layer skimming off its portion. Those near the top take the largest cut, while those actually working see their share diminish.
The result is what we all feel: rising prices and falling quality of life. It isn’t mysterious — it’s the natural consequence of an economy that produces less real value, while inflation quietly consumes the rest.