KuriGohan&Kamehameha
想死不能 - 想活不能
- Nov 23, 2020
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Today I heard that even more businesses are being closed and bought up by large online retailers and fast fashion companies, for example Amazon, Alibaba, Ali express type outlets.
Thousands upon thousands have lost their jobs during covid, only for the industries they were employed in to be further brought to their knees, likely to the point of no return.
Certain industries are being culled and it is doubtful we will ever see things like big shopping centers, strip malls, and the traditional high street ever again.
Most will rejoice in the convenience of being able to order things with a click of a button, rejoicing in the closure of brick and mortar stores as beacons of consumerism despite that fact that thousands will be unemployed and hungry as a result of this, and there's no new jobs lined up for them due to the cheap, profitable exploitation of overseas labourers.
Not to mention the fact that biodiversity is dead. Never again will we see windshield wipers full of insects, because our species seems hellbent on making most of the plants and animals on this earth extinct. With every instance of nature as we know it being paved over to construct new housing complexes and parking lots, and small businesses being boarded up, it seems like it is just a matter of time before we exist like cramped sardines in a tin.
There are some people out there who want 20 billion humans to exist and keep steamrolling the earth with endless consumption, and think that degrowth movement and antinatalism is extremist. However, I think the world is headed for dire straights if we simply keep producing and consuming beyond our means and live in tiny little bubbles with 0 human contact. Your neighbors, in their own little bubble, stay weary of you, and you are only allowed to walk outside of your concrete enclosure for a few minutes each day when you aren't toiling away at work looking upon the city skyline, which is nothing but smog.
That is how I see the future. Yet people think we will just bounce back and create some technocratic futuristic utopia in the near future. Look at this. I'm afraid it's all downhill from here. Other young people in my age group have no hope as we inherit a massive recession, and none of us think we will have jobs when we graduate uni in a couple years. Also we are distanced from meaningful work and things that make life enjoyable like creation and creativity. You cannot write stories, make art, or create handmade goods without doing it for a profit, you must either sell your soul to some giant warehouse like Amazon or fill out spreadsheets all day before you are respected by society.
Thousands upon thousands have lost their jobs during covid, only for the industries they were employed in to be further brought to their knees, likely to the point of no return.
Certain industries are being culled and it is doubtful we will ever see things like big shopping centers, strip malls, and the traditional high street ever again.
Most will rejoice in the convenience of being able to order things with a click of a button, rejoicing in the closure of brick and mortar stores as beacons of consumerism despite that fact that thousands will be unemployed and hungry as a result of this, and there's no new jobs lined up for them due to the cheap, profitable exploitation of overseas labourers.
Not to mention the fact that biodiversity is dead. Never again will we see windshield wipers full of insects, because our species seems hellbent on making most of the plants and animals on this earth extinct. With every instance of nature as we know it being paved over to construct new housing complexes and parking lots, and small businesses being boarded up, it seems like it is just a matter of time before we exist like cramped sardines in a tin.
There are some people out there who want 20 billion humans to exist and keep steamrolling the earth with endless consumption, and think that degrowth movement and antinatalism is extremist. However, I think the world is headed for dire straights if we simply keep producing and consuming beyond our means and live in tiny little bubbles with 0 human contact. Your neighbors, in their own little bubble, stay weary of you, and you are only allowed to walk outside of your concrete enclosure for a few minutes each day when you aren't toiling away at work looking upon the city skyline, which is nothing but smog.
That is how I see the future. Yet people think we will just bounce back and create some technocratic futuristic utopia in the near future. Look at this. I'm afraid it's all downhill from here. Other young people in my age group have no hope as we inherit a massive recession, and none of us think we will have jobs when we graduate uni in a couple years. Also we are distanced from meaningful work and things that make life enjoyable like creation and creativity. You cannot write stories, make art, or create handmade goods without doing it for a profit, you must either sell your soul to some giant warehouse like Amazon or fill out spreadsheets all day before you are respected by society.
UK unemployment rate hits 5% as more than 800,000 jobs disappear during pandemic
Record number of redundancies between September and November, official figures show
www.independent.co.uk
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