• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    2029 days ago

    Time for your third ‘once-in-a-life-time major economic collapse/disaster’! Wheeee!

    Wait? Third? I feel like we’re past third. Has it only been three?

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      1229 days ago

      Dot com bubble, the great recession, covid. So yeah, that would be the fourth coming up.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        8
        edit-2
        29 days ago

        You can also use 9/11 + GWOT in place of the dotcom bubble, for ‘society reshaping disaster crisis’

        So uh, silly me, living in the disaster hypercapitalism ers, being so normalized to utterly.world redefining chaos at every level, so.often, that i have lost count.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          529 days ago

          That is more American focused though. Sure I heard about 9/11 but I was 8 and didn’t really care because I wanted to go play outside.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            329 days ago

            True, true, sorry, my America-centrism is showing.

            Or well, you know, it was a formative and highly traumatic ‘core memory’ for me.

            And, at the time, we were the largest economy in the world, and that event broke our collective minds, and reoriented that economy, and our society, down a dark path that only ended up causing waste, death and destruction.

            Imagine the timeline where Gore won, not Bush, and all the US really did was send in a specops team to Afghanistan to get Bin Laden, as opposed to occupy the whole country, never did Iraq 2.

            Thats… a lot of political capital and money that could have been directed to… anything else, i dunno, maybe kickstarting a green energy push?