Wrong.
Don't you remember that our attack was called "Shock and Awe"?
It was a deliberate attack on the civilian infrastructure, like water, power, food, etc.
In a desert like Iraq, that is fatal.
We forced civilians to resort to drinking from swamps.
There were no deaths from "Irans proxies".
We deliberately targeted civilians.
Like when we wiped out all the civilians in Halabjah.
But remember, it's a global economy now. So now we manufacture more in other countries with cheaper labor. So we have to stay on top with innovation, food exports, green energy, oil and gas exports, making chips, making vaccines we sell to the rest of the world.
Some industries must stay at home though. Like Auto Manufacturing. Vital to our economy that we manufacture some things at home.
I actually hope society is going towards
4 day work weeks
Fewer kids
More automation and AI doing the work for us
Why do we have to be Capitalists 200 years from now? Why can't we all just fish and enjoy our lives? Let AI and the robots do all the work.
Yes, many had proposed the idea of basic universal income. By the way, I appreciate the insightful conversations. It’s a breath of fresh air compared to some of the people I have on ignore who are completely incapable of bringing anything to the table here. Other than one sentence, posts, or trolling. So this thread is a breath of fresh air.
Look at the people who keep on talking about “Putin trolls” or “Russian propaganda”.., they talk like this, because they have nothing of substance to bring to the table and I think many of them are on drugs and have a very bad diet. Somethings wrong with their lives.
As for fewer kids well that’s up to married couples. I think a big family is a pretty cool thing …, happiness comes from being married, and having children. It is true divorce is a thing, but it’s more a modern thing. Divorces were unheard of when it came to our ancestors.
I think what you’re describing is a utopian type of society where everybody is entitled to a basic living without even having to work. Maybe it is possible but who knows. It seems like competition is a natural thing among humans. Men compete with each other to get the best looking women. Men compete with each other to get the best sports car. And women are also competing to They’ve been a part of this thing for many years. So people are competing to be able to build mansions. And as long as there is money in this world and the ability for people to get super rich, I think we’re going to be having the current status quo for a long time.
Religion is an important factor in our lives. It gives people a sense of comfort and dignity, and helps them get through tough times. It helped me get through a very, very difficult car accident. I think that as we go into the future religions should continue to play a big role in our lives. Especially Christianity.
We all come from our parents. So the idea that it is somehow a good thing to never get married to never have kids or even just to have one kid is it inappropriate in my opinion. Because it goes against what our ancestors did. And just think about this, if every person in the world subscribed to the idea that it’s OK to never get married, and have no kids, we would cease to exist as humans.
But yes, the idea of a universal basic income could be the future. It might have its problems though. It seems like the successful country has a strong middle-class and a very wealthy upper class. America of the middle 20th century was led by great people, like Eisenhower, Roosevelt and Kennedy, Eisenhower brought us the American Thruway. We had the greatest class in the history of the world during this time. Something went wrong and it was a combination of leadership by unions when in the past unions were great. We also had leaders who did not do the right things. Companies who outsourced their jobs.
As for the Middle East, if you look at a lot of the countries, like Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq for most of the 20th century they were secular. In fact, Lebanon was known as the
Paris of the Middle East.
there are people in the world who want Middle Eastern countries to be viewed as fundamentalist and fanatic for monetary gains. Not because of some moral reasoning, they know they are lying. And so is one of the greatest mysteries of who is truly behind the rise of fundamentalist, Iran, or the Taliban and Afghanistan, or Al-Qaeda. Because for again for most of the 20th century a lot of the Middle Eastern countries were secular with exception to the golf countries, but they weren’t really necessarily that bad or interested in invading other countries.
Keep in mind that the scramble for Africa in other words English , French German and European colonialism in Africa was occurring in the 20th century, and It really only stopped after World War II ended. People who rant and rave about Russia being evil either have no idea about this or simply don’t care about it. They act like Russia is unique in the animals of history when it comes to invading or taking over lands of other countries. Those people again don’t know about the scramble for Africa or they know about it they simply don’t care about it which makes them look really really bad.
So that’s why it is not worth talking with those people. They are not contributing to this discussion. But people like you and others are contributing to this discussion.