Scott Adams
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We're always going to have hopefully different frictions in human life that make us have to try to thrive.
Humans thrive by the unbalanced land that we're on because we have to struggle and that struggle is always going to be there.
These are really good points.
And if you study history, not just the Roman and Greek cultures, but a lot of the microcultures,
There's an arc of their existence.
And when they get to the existence point of so much abundance and so much wealth, there is an ultimate decline.
And that decline is obviously taking place in most of the Western world.
It's actually rapidly taking place in the Eastern world.
China is a good example.
Japan is.
a really good example.
They reached a maximum and they dropped off quite rapidly.
So this is something we all have to start being mature about and dealing with.
And to try to depoliticize it, I get the political angle and we can say, Karen, I won't say that.
But I mean, the reason why this happens is humans need something to make them industrious.
They need to be able to have something to focus on.
And
giving some credit to the people in power, they know that.
They look at Universe 25 and they look at us unwashed masses, because we're the unwashed masses, we're the useless eaters, all of us here.
And they go, what are we gonna do with those people?