I found an interesting comment in the reddit thread. Governments no longer have citizens. They have employees. Which makes sense with how things are going in the modern age. In such a system the only way to improve the quality of life of the labor class is to either isolate from the rest of the world or to pick up the bottom strata consistently until quality of life is high across the board so there is no benefit to picking somebody else up to do the same job for less money as nobody would agree to the contract.

We can now expect an outflow of Greek citizens to the rest of the EU meanwhile an increased inflow of labor from the poorer east European and North African territories.

The western societal systems are clearly not sustainable as they are completely dependent on bringing in people from the rest of the world to make up for population decline. The quality of people being brought in has been declining decade on decade as well as the smartest people have already been picked up from across the globe. The only remaining move is to bring in immigrants from culturally close nation states along with bordering nation states.

Just as the black plague improved the quality of life of the labor class due to lack of labor availability, we will see another improvement in the quality of life of the bottom class as the European populations continue to decline.

None of the developed societies of the world today are sustainable. As all of them are running on a below replacement fertility rate and have no capacity to replace their own internal populations, nor the levels of innovation required to grow at more than 2% GDP growth with a declining population.

In the end, western nation states can only grow via expansion.

Canada Day is not about you. You know who it is about? The Indigenous population this country continues to exploit and enact genocide on in the name of colonialism and white supremacy. It’s not about you Michael. You are a white man in so called Canada. You are not oppressed. https://t.co/qJ9De8iStJ

— Fatima 𓂆 فاطمة 🇵🇸 (@fatimasal82) July 1, 2024

Redditors are already hoarding tpilet paper again

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1dt2jbh/summer_covid_wave_building_after_rise_in_hospital/

Shocking…except everyone wants to pretend they have a summer cold😳

I'm not trying to make anyone mad but do boosters actually do anything? Just from my anecdotal evidence some up to date on the shots got it worse than those without. Just asking because I'm due for one but last one really made me feel like shit so I've been putting it off.

plague rat has a wrong think

Might as well get used to annual Covid vaccine shot just like regular flu shot.