The decline has taken years. And by various sleights of hand the illusion of prosperity has been preserved and taken in otherwise intelligent people. No government has tackled the root problems though:
- low productivity
- poor education/training
- low social status of technical/science/engineering people
- low level of advanced manufacturing (with a few exceptions)
- the cult of personality (by which I mean bull-tulipters are taken at face value)
Meanwhile unproductive people in finance, media, celebrity culture are glorified and presented as paragons of virtue. Accomplishment in any field, self-discipline, thrift are forgotten virtues.
What is coming is truly deserved.
- low productivity
- poor education/training
- low social status of technical/science/engineering people
- low level of advanced manufacturing (with a few exceptions)
- the cult of personality (by which I mean bull-tulipters are taken at face value)
Meanwhile unproductive people in finance, media, celebrity culture are glorified and presented as paragons of virtue. Accomplishment in any field, self-discipline, thrift are forgotten virtues.
What is coming is truly deserved.
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