Comment by joquarky

5 hours ago

Something is coming so it's all smash and grab.

What something?

  • Look at the factors in play:

    -8 billion human beings

    -the continuing health impacts of COVID

    -increased frequency and magnitude of destructive weather events

    -global weather pattern shifts

    -increasingly dysfunctional governments in previously stable nations

    -markets dominated by players decoupled from reality

    -a stock market bubble of immense proportions

    -the end of the post-WWII order

    -an interlinked global economy with very little resilience

    -an increasing amount of war

    I have no idea what shape the world that emerges from all the above is going to be, but I strongly doubt it will be better than it was. The obvious analogs seem to be the Great Depression and the World Wars.

    I don't know exactly what will start the dominoes falling, but the current war in Persian Gulf has a lot of potential to do so.