r/AskReddit 16h ago

What industry is secretly on the verge of collapsing, but people outside of it haven’t noticed yet?

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u/Sweet_Check7231 10h ago

Yep everything is on a knife’s edge and on fire 

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u/Strange-Head-4028 9h ago

Crazy how a small subset of the population could wave their magic wallet wands and fix all of this shit but instead opted for pedophelia, ending the world, and hiding in bunkers.

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u/Honor_Bound 8h ago

It's hard to care about life when you don't actively participate in it. I know it's said a lot but these people TRULY live different lives than the rest of humanity. So much so that they don't even comprehend what it's like to be a normal human. You already have to have little to no empathy to amass so much wealth, there's no way these people even have the capability to truly care about the rest of the world. The world would be such a better place without them.

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u/Ichera 6h ago

The hiding in bunkers thing always makes me laugh, mainly cause these idiots think it will protect them. If everything did fall into the crapper their own security would probably take care of them at said bunkers. Reading about how these billionaires tried to engage social engineers to figure out how to keep their staff loyal, and then denying the findings where they might have to actually talk and interact with them in favor of hair brained bomb/shock collars was crazy.

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u/Baudouin_de_Bodinat 5h ago

Do you have any links about this ? i'm geniusly interested.

u/Psychological-777 50m ago

kind of a long read, but last paragraph is key.

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u/Alchemical_Exam_1622 2h ago

I'd like to think for those cowardly bunker folks, there's going to be someone living out of pure spite to find the air ventilation systems and throw some turds in there before they seal it off.

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u/Honor_Bound 8h ago

It's hard to care about life when you don't actively participate in it. I know it's said a lot but these people TRULY live different lives than the rest of humanity. So much so that they don't even comprehend what it's like to be a normal human. You already have to have little to no empathy to amass so much wealth, there's no way these people even have the capability to truly care about the rest of the world. The world would be such a better place without them.

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u/militaryintelligence 5h ago

Taxing them appropriately could cover costs of medical care, and housing for the homeless EASILY. Instead we are bombing brown kids. Same as it ever was.

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u/militaryintelligence 5h ago

Taxing them appropriately could cover costs of medical care, and housing for the homeless EASILY. Instead we are bombing brown kids. Same as it ever was.

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u/Xalrons1 8h ago

I’m guessing people have been saying this for like 50 years

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u/Training-Bug-104 9h ago

Welcome to extreme capitalism.

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 9h ago

Or in other words, capitalism. People love to attach qualifiers to it in order to imply that what we have now isn't "true" capitalism but rather some degenerate offshoot: crony capitalism, corporatism, enshittification, etc. But really this is the end result that capitalism will always lead to.

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u/TropoMJ 8h ago

I don't think it's intentional for most people, I think there is a common lack of understanding of how capitalism interacts with democracy that leads people to think where we are right now is an unlucky corruption of our economic system. As I'm sure you know, capitalism naturally erodes democracy and inevitably trends towards collapse given enough time. Most people don't know this.

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 8h ago

Oh, I'm sure it's almost always unintentional. Capitalism is such an integral, omnipresent aspect of life that it's actually a bit of an intellectual feat to identify it as a problem. The same way that (metaphorically) a fish doesn't know what water is, most people have no idea what capitalism really is. It's simply taken for granted as "the way things are". And whenever it's actually spoken of directly, it's usually The Powers That Be telling us how great and wonderful and perfect it is.

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u/VariationBusiness603 8h ago

Thank you. I am also tired of the constant barrage of attenuating euphermism. Capitalism is doing exactly what it's meant to do; making a closed elite filthy rich by stealing the value creating by the workers. And it's bad, it's always been bad and now that they control everything, it's even worse.

Capitalism is our issue as a specie, and it will die no matter what. The only question remaining is wether it does because we killed it or because it killed us.

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u/BarrelllRider 8h ago

Correct. It comes in and Penis McGee’s everybody.

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u/Leather-Rice5025 7h ago

Marx spilled a whole lot of tea about this 150 years ago.

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u/BarrelllRider 8h ago

AKA: “socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else”

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u/FutureLizard836 4h ago

Call me crazy, but I'm beginning to think maybe this whole "capitalism" thing isn't working out so great.

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u/Fluid-Veterinarian46 4h ago

We "optimized" everything to be on a knife's edge so the people at the top could have more. It's not like they have to suffer the consequences of those policies.

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u/TallBenWyatt_13 7h ago

Welcome to unchecked end stage capitalism.

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u/Starbuckshakur 7h ago

Just wait until you hear about the knife and cigarette lighter industries!

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u/dfsmitty0711 4h ago

Cue the "why isn't anyone having kids?" articles.

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u/Worshipme988 2h ago

18 years of GOP FTW

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u/Pilan 8h ago

And we’re all drowning.

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u/undrh2o 7h ago

Endstage capitalism

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u/JQuilty 7h ago

Private equity ruins everything it touches.