ZeroHedge is out with a year-end list of 30 numbers. They are in no particular order, but when you group a few together here and there, you start to get a picture of things.
For instance, here’s some numbers to tell us how bad inflation is, and notably, who caused it. It all started to go south after 2019, a.k.a. after Trump and solidly into the Biden years. We knew that, but yikes. Check out the data.
- In 2019, you could get a cheeseburger at McDonald’s for a dollar. Today, the average price of a cheeseburger at McDonald’s is $3.15.
- Since 2019, the annual income needed to afford a median-priced home in rural U.S. counties has more than doubled.
That’s our pocketbooks. Where are we at mentally? Well, it ain’t great. (Brackets and italics added below.)
- One study discovered that approximately 42% of Americans that belong to Generation Z [born 1997–2012] have been diagnosed with “anxiety, depression, ADHD, PTSD” or some other mental health condition.
- One recent survey found that 70% of U.S. adults are currently taking at least one pharmaceutical drug, and nearly a quarter of U.S. adults are currently taking at least four pharmaceutical drugs.
So what are we doing? Aside from turning to pharmaceuticals? Turning to each other for help? Nope.
- Approximately 20% of high school students in the United States have had a relationship with an AI chatbot.
- One recent survey found that almost two-thirds of all church leaders that prepare sermons “use AI tools in their sermon writing process”.
AI preachers? Really? That’s where my religion is coming from? In two out of three pulpits?
And what, exactly, kind of “relationship” does one have with… a bot. I don’t even want to think about it. It’s desperately unhealthy. Like women marrying trees. Remember that?