From my understanding, the marxism was literally a soviet strategy from decades ago, still playing out in western schools today, and taking ourselves off the gold standard was because we needed to fund our wars bro.

ok, fine, but I'm left with wondering _WHYYYY?!_

Like, how did this happen and why do we choose those bad things... _unforced errors_

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), but we spend our time and tech and resources hypnotizing one another and trying to sell ads, or fucking around with financialization efforts that routinely blow up in our faces or enforcing self-imposed energy restraints to placate climate doomerism.

Seems like you basically pointed out the issues?  No question in my mind that Cantillonization of the economy is one of the big factors.  Heap on top of that a healthy layer of Malthusianism and Cultural Nihilism and you get the modern western youth

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> Maybe we have the *ability* or *conditions* for progress in the West (...[not Europe](https://stacker.news/items/1020250/r/denlillaapan)), but we spend our time and tech and resources hypnotizing one another and trying to sell ads, or fucking around with financialization efforts that routinely blow up in our faces or enforcing self-imposed energy restraints to placate climate doomerism.

Seems like you basically pointed out the issues?  No question in my mind that Cantillonization of the economy is one of the big factors.  Heap on top of that a healthy layer of Malthusianism and Cultural Nihilism and you get the modern western youth