Global Depression 2022 - Time to do the Breadline Boogaloo!

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Who is going to get hit the hardest?

  • North America

  • South America

  • Asia

  • Europe

  • Australia

  • Africa

  • The Middle East

  • Everyone's fucked

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The Gene Genie said:
I don't know much of Alberta or Canada but the aquifers and water sources in America, particularly the Southwest and in the Prairie States, are being drained rapidly. Unsustainable agriculture and the natural cycle (the Southwest, for instance, has had its water resources collapse before) have made the whole place a powderkeg.
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Hey, be reasonable. Those almond farms might have to go grow their shit in a region actually suited to growing almonds if you keep talking like that, and we can't have that.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
Hey, be reasonable. Those almond farms might have to go grow their shit in a region actually suited to growing almonds if you keep talking like that, and we can't have that.
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The problem goes much deeper than that. The main agricultural breadbasket in the Plains are all underneath a massive aquifer and it's being drained at unsustainable levels due to industrial farming. We're hurtling towards an agricultural collapse and no one seems to care because
1) The average person has no idea nor inclination to learn about this on their own
2) There's too much profit to be had.
 
The Gene Genie said:
The problem goes much deeper than that. The main agricultural breadbasket in the Plains are all underneath a massive aquifer and it's being drained at unsustainable levels due to industrial farming. We're hurtling towards an agricultural collapse and no one seems to care because
1) The average person has no idea nor inclination to learn about this on their own
2) There's too much profit to be had.
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There's also the issue of water rights. Arizona exports alfalfa because the water is sold off for a song. The value of water in these desert regions isn't appreciated.
 
Audit said:
There's also the issue of water rights. Arizona exports alfalfa because the water is sold off for a song. The value of water in these desert regions isn't appreciated.
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Part of this is because the water rights were allocated way back at the end of the 1920s. Turns out the 1910s and 1920s were some of the historically wettest years and also the years which at the time had the best data. So it's all based on distorted data which means they need to make all sorts of emergency clauses for the water rights which causes all sorts of expensive lawsuits.
 
FatalTater said:
Not to worry anyone, but America's Social Security and Medicare funds are getting low. According to the article linked below, by the early 2030s they won't be able to pay out as much as they have been.



Sounds like Generation X is going to have to fend for themselves yet again.
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It's pretty much inevitable in any western country, it's all a pyramid scheme where current generation is paying for the former generation.
 
FatalTater said:
Not to worry anyone, but America's Social Security and Medicare funds are getting low. According to the article linked below, by the early 2030s they won't be able to pay out as much as they have been.



Sounds like Generation X is going to have to fend for themselves yet again.
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What's their angle on actually saying this? Especially while funneling "Aid" to two foreign nations simultaneously for proxy wars? I honestly can't wrap my head around it whether it be "See what the last guy did!" and or "Well we ran out of money but we've got this hot new credit currency...." given the oddly lopsided date of 2031 to avoid being pinned as 2030 on the nose.

Because as it stands now the money printer can always go brrrrr, and we've just imported millions of new hard blue gibs me dat voters... What is there to be gained otherwise from saying "We're gonna run out of gibs in 8 years" while you're the ones in charge?
 
Local real estate market went from 183 (I mentioned it to someone so I have the exact number) houses on the market 12 days ago to 369 today.

Prepare thy anus, we're about to hit that "soft landing" they were talking about.
 
To do one of my hobbies, I'll cover a small folding table with paper towels. It's always been the case that 3 paper towels covered the whole table. Now it takes 4 paper towels to cover the table. I'm using the same brand and everything, just some shrinkflation going on.
 
Bugman's Burden said:
To do one of my hobbies, I'll cover a small folding table with paper towels. It's always been the case that 3 paper towels covered the whole table. Now it takes 4 paper towels to cover the table. I'm using the same brand and everything, just some shrinkflation going on.
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Bag of chips went from $3.50 to just under $6 here in the time since I ordered one (a few years ago). And yeah I'm pretty sure the "family size" bag used to be a normal sized bag. And yeah I've noticed the same thing with the paper towels. Switched the blue shop towels as they haven't been affected as much.
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
Bag of chips went from $3.50 to just under $6 here in the time since I ordered one (a few years ago). And yeah I'm pretty sure the "family size" bag used to be a normal sized bag. And yeah I've noticed the same thing with the paper towels. Switched the blue shop towels as they haven't been affected as much.
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Bright side is the inflation has really helped me cut down my goyslop consumption and start moving towards actually food.
 
The masses still struggle with realizing the nation "Weak mean create hard times" and "hard times create strong men" considering we're about to be in a Children of Men situation for the next few decades. This in turn will collapse many economies and lead to even more unrest. Those who fail to cope with that notion will fall under as those more equipped will take care of the rest. Things will continue to get worse before it gets better and it might be longer than we think.
 
Non-profit organizations are getting desperate today. I tuned to my daily Christian radio and they're constantly asking for donations 24/7 for the last 3 days; although they were able to finally fulfil their donation goal, they noted how they were "running behind" on previous records.

Another omen I noticed is the pro-life clinic I donate to has stopped getting clients for a week. People simply don't want children in this economy.
 
Second Sun said:
It's crazy to think how bad things are right now, given how low unemployment is. If it goes up there are absolutely going to be riots across the whole western world.
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Unemployment or underemployment is misrepresented in the stats. They don't count people who just give up long term or work a shitty part time gig like driving an Uber. The real unemployment has to take into account all of the non-working adults including the elderly, who take pensions paid for by workers.
 
I notice the market is not happy with earnings this quarter and is absolutely barfing its brains out. Google is down about 12% in two days and a bunch of the other tech giants are also eating shit. Amazon did quite well and still is down 18% from its most recent high mid september. Sept-Oct is usually the period known market crashes, it almost feels like the market movers are pulling back because they see the shoe dropping.
Second Sun said:
It's crazy to think how bad things are right now, given how low unemployment is. If it goes up there are absolutely going to be riots across the whole western world.
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The numbers are fraudulent across the board, but unemployment is largely useless since Obama started gaming them. Unemployment is likely nearing the 5-8% range, we can tell its high because the fucking tax receipts are lower than prior years even though unemployment is "vastly lower," generally the idea is that when you have full employment the income taxes derived from this will go up, nope, its trending downward. Just today the Biden admin was trying to claim that purchases of new housing went up, and was over expectations at that.
 
Noticed a bunch of people were laid off at my company today.....almost all of them were from marketing, lol.
 
Vyse Inglebard said:
Noticed a bunch of people were laid off at my company today.....almost all of them were from marketing, lol.
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I've lived through that. You should probably stop or slow all discretionary spending for oh, the next 3-6 months, just in case. Usually companies that give up Marketing are "not doing well."
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
I've lived through that. You should probably stop or slow all discretionary spending for oh, the next 3-6 months, just in case. Usually companies that give up Marketing are "not doing well."
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...they also bought out a lot of smaller companies in their field in the past year.....shit. Thanks for the heads-up, I'll keep that in mind
 
Vyse Inglebard said:
...they also bought out a lot of smaller companies in their field in the past year.....shit. Thanks for the heads-up, I'll keep that in mind
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Ah. Well with that, there's a non-zero chance that they just have too many Marketing people, if they didn't perform purges as the smaller companies came in. But if they're now "the" company of that field, and that field's going to shit with the economy, well...
 
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