Reply #4: Fight for all the change you want [View All]

[The2ndWheel]

But while you do it, you might need to adapt to the environment within which you find yourself.

If that means, for example, possibly getting a roommate of some kind, even if you're older, or even if you really want to live by yourself(which is fine, but you live with the risks), you might need to do that to share the burden. You know, the same way we want society to get more resources pooled together. You might not be able to wait for that to happen.

The cheap energy we've had access to for the last few decades/centuries has created a situation where adaptation is a lost skill. Not for everybody, as those who have been on the lower side of the economy have always had to be creative and watch every dollar. However, increasingly, the answer has always been more. That's not adaptation, that's domination. It was our attempt at imposing our collective will onto physical reality. That path works until it doesn't.

Now we find ourselves in a world where you're needed less and less. Not only competing with more and more people around the world, but directly competing against technology as well. Technological advancement has become almost an end, instead of the means to it. People are losing control over that advancement, and so are just swept up in the tide.

You can't just fight. It's time to adapt in order to be better prepared to find the cracks to fight in.

The middle class in mass society is very recent. There is no reason to expect or assume that it will continue just because we want it to, for many reasons.