Our economy is a joke. We make almost nothing anymore—everything's being outsourced to wherever it's cheapest. Instead of fostering industries and innovation here at home, we're content to play financial games, shuffling numbers around while the real wealth and jobs disappear overseas.
But it gets worse. We're actively incentivizing people not to have kids, setting up a demographic time bomb that’s going to make everything even worse for the next generation. We're hollowing out our future workforce and pretending it's fine because Wall Street is happy. It's beyond short-sighted; it's downright destructive.
And let's talk about how we're subsidizing social programs in other countries (aid) while demonizing any attempt to help our own citizens. Ask for affordable healthcare or a decent safety net here, and you're branded an evil socialist. Meanwhile, our tax dollars are propping up welfare states around the globe, one is an apartheid ethnostate currently perpetuating a massacre of epic proportions, and the other is one of the most corrupt dictatorships to have ever existed, ironically being invaded by another fellow corrupt dictatorship. We’re footing the bill abd the only winners are the lords of war who are making billions. It’s infuriating.
Good luck to the next generation—they’re going to need it. We're leaving them a mess of epic proportions: a hollow economy, a broken social contract, and a political system that seems more interested in ideological purity than practical solutions. We need to wake up and start making real changes before it's too late.