You only have to experience a few of these things (or a ton of others that won't fit) to be pessimistic about the economy as long as the actors and structures that are causing things to be this way remain entrenched.

Prices are high. Housing is high. Job market is tight. The stock market is propped up by an AI bubble; even if it's not a bubble, success means an employment bloodbath. A spoiled madman with no opposition can wound the economy with a tweet. Government services are threatened/cut.

It's not hard to divine that if everything sucks, people are going to feel like everything sucks.

At the same time, we have to make peace with the fact that we might have to do things we presently consider unseemly (eg hanging elites responsible).

This reads like a sketch from a 2000s comedy show that lasted four episodes.

Really, you can’t? Where‘ve you been?

As AI solved the problem of datacenters being flammable?

Nah, fuck this too, and any other sorcery that takes us further from our storm gods.

Whenever some clanker claims LLMs are going to change the world, their only example is this sequencing one.

Not to mention “you’re giving up the fight to influence people by not using X” is one of the most pathetic thing‘s I’ve seen on Al Gore’s internet.

At the dinner table the other night I mentioned to my wife about the government's latest murders in the Caribbean, and my 8yo slapped the table with an outraged "WHAT?!"