I would really like to see a national conversation about helping people find happy, satisfying lifestyles away from the rat race. With a national population smaller than what we have today — if you look at current dating patterns and fertility, I think a population crash is inevitable.
If we had 250 million Americans, and if many of those people didn’t want to be corporate wage slaves, what would it look like?
But this sort of discussion is “off limits” because we need to grow, grow, grow. We need profits. We need big corporations. We need CEOs with yachts and private jets. We need lots of stuff. Ordinary people living pleasant lives??? Where’s the fun in that????
“”””I would really like to see a national conversation about helping people find happy, satisfying lifestyles away from the rat race. With a national population smaller than what we have today — if you look at current dating patterns and fertility, I think a population crash is inevitable.
If we had 250 million Americans, and if many of those people didn’t want to be corporate wage slaves, what would it look like?””””
That was a common national discussion in 1970 before America discovered immigration had been unleashed and was dragging us backwards into being bilingualism with press 1 for English and a regression into being a grubby, backwards nation of constant internal conflict, an angry bubbling cesspool of foreign cultures and religions and tribalism and an all powerful government and bottomless social programs over infrastructure and quality.