Every passing year seems progressively worse

[Smack That Ace]

It's all our fault, what we've done to nature for centuries, and now it's time for us to pay the consequences. For the sake of improving the lives of people and making their lives more comfortable, we have exploited, degraded, and destroyed nature, creating hundreds of thousands of products that make the earth a hotter and more polluted place...Not to mention just because of power, countries take turns arming nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, and weapons tests have created a large amount of emissions. I think our earth will become arid just like the sci-fi movies we are watching.

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[Iroh]

It's all our fault, what we've done to nature for centuries, and now it's time for us to pay the consequences. For the sake of improving the lives of people and making their lives more comfortable, we have exploited, degraded, and destroyed nature, creating hundreds of thousands of products that make the earth a hotter and more polluted place...Not to mention just because of power, countries take turns arming nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, and weapons tests have created a large amount of emissions. I think our earth will become arid just like the sci-fi movies we are watching.

You’ve got a point there. We as humans have been constantly degrading and exploiting our environment. In the quest to obtain some natural resources, man has polluted the environment and is constantly engaged in it.
During the 2020 lockdown, humans, the main pollutants of the earth were locked away in their homes, the earth tried to heal and cleanse itself. The air got visibly better without all the emissions and smokes from our cars exhaust. But then the lockdowns were lifted and we came back to degrading of the environment in full swing. Our earth may very well become an arid wasteland with the way and manner we’re headed. 

[Marvell1]

I didn't find anyone here who is not upset due to ongoing inflation. This is getting worse - if we don't hold our expenses and do not put a pause to the window shopping habit. It is hard - but then its very important as well.

There's no need to feel upset about things that are happening right now, because we also can't stop bad things from happening. And as for the problem of spending or daily shopping that has become a habit, I think everyone is also very aware of this because every expense is of course calculated beforehand.

After all, no one wants to spend their money shopping for one day and then the next day they have to feel hungry, so there is no need to be disappointed with any current conditions as long as we can still improve every expenditure and continue to look for better income every day on a regular basis

I don't know if you believe me, but I don't feel bad that inflation is happening, I know I'm paying more than upfront for living expenses. But instead in times of crisis, I took advantage of the situation and generated a stable and higher income than in previous years. It can be said that I have had a desirable 2022.

Crisis, inflation is a part of the world, it comes and goes and will return in the future, we can't escape it, let's learn to live with it and find ways to turn it into an opportunity, not an is fear.

But people who are making a lot of money in times of crisis should not spend it lavishly. Crisis is also an opportunity that only comes once in 10 years and 15 years, take advantage of the investment, we will receive a worthy reward when the crisis is over.

[maydna]

Inflation will come one day when everything will be difficult to obtain. But before that happens, we can still prepare ourselves so that we won't be affected too much and still be able to survive and even save ourselves from that inflation. Even though the world situation is getting more difficult, we can still survive because we are already prepared for his arrival. And if people still don't know about it, they will regret not listening or preparing themselves. Covid-19 has had a huge negative impact on almost all countries and is continuing today. Even though many have been affected by it, most people are still trying to get through it, and we are barely making it through. Maybe this is called Natural Selection, which will select anyone who can continue to see the development of the world in the future while others will not be able to survive.

Inflation is already here actually ever since before. It didn't go away but it only increase or decrease depending on some factors. For now, the inflation rates are high. This is why people are having a hard time.

I think inflation only applies on certain goods so there's no way that everything can be hard to obtain later on but even if it's possible, there must always be a way for a person who is truly willing. Other than the inflation, another economic crisis is also said to happen. It is called a recession. They sound the same but their effects are slightly different. If many of us didn't prepare for the inflation, then we can still prepare on this one. One of it is through saving some cash.

The current condition may not be too severe because there are still many people who can still survive and many who can still meet their needs. But if inflation goes bad and turns into a recession, we will see a lot of people suffering and unable to make ends meet, and there will be a lot of chaos going on in many countries. And by preparing ourselves by saving some money, as you said, we can be better prepared if the condition gets worse and we hope that we won't be affected too badly and are still able to survive. And as long as these basic necessities are still available and can be purchased, we can certainly survive, and at this time, we still have that opportunity.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Everything is always known in comparison. If you look at countries that have been living in the war for years, then all this inflation will seem like a trifle. But yes, every year it becomes more difficult; the economic relations of the countries have become very tense due to the lack of natural resources and wars; they only argue that the current leaders of the countries are not diplomatic enough to ensure peace and normal relations between countries. Believers call this time apocalyptic. Everything, in any case, depends on the person. All the sins that people had been trying to keep hidden for centuries came to light. And the longer people remain insane, the longer we will be subjected to such hardships.


Happy New Year, crazy planet!

[Smartprofit]

It's all our fault, what we've done to nature for centuries, and now it's time for us to pay the consequences. For the sake of improving the lives of people and making their lives more comfortable, we have exploited, degraded, and destroyed nature, creating hundreds of thousands of products that make the earth a hotter and more polluted place...Not to mention just because of power, countries take turns arming nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, and weapons tests have created a large amount of emissions. I think our earth will become arid just like the sci-fi movies we are watching.

Man is made for consumption, like a fish for water and like a bird for flight.  There is nothing wrong with smart consumption. 

For thousands of years of human history, people have lived in poverty.  The elites provided themselves with a very high standard of living, but the bulk of the population was starving.  In the late 20th and early 21st century, the situation changed. 

Most people on planet Earth have a place to live (own or rent), warm clothing, quality food, and drinking water.  They also have the opportunity to study and spend their free time culturally. 

All these achievements of mankind cannot be denied!

[davis196]

Living in interesting times is a curse, according to the Chinese.
What makes life interesting is the amount of problems we solve and the obstacles we overcome along the way. Life would've been way more boring and pointless, if everything was just fine and there weren't any difficulties.
There were wars, natural disasters and economic downturns since the dawn of the human civilization. It would be really stupid and naive to think that there won't be any wars, natural disasters and economic downturns in the future.
Maybe we should develop a stoic mindset and learn not to be preoccupied by the negative news, because the bad news are what drives the mainstream media. You know the saying "good news isn't news".

[livingfree]

I don't think you're overexaggerating. What you've observed are for real happening and it seems not worrying for some as they're not experiencing those effects especially the climate change.

We may seem to be done with the pandemic but remember that it's still there, no matter how loosen the restrictions are right now, still it is still existing.

I believe that it will calm down soon, it is not going to be forever that we'll have this extreme inflation and shortage of almost everything. Coming from food, to wheat and as well as experiencing the high prices for energy/oil.

Some futurologists predict a civilizational rollback for humanity.

They explain their pessimistic forecasts as follows - in the management system, the governing bodies should be more complex than the controlled system. In the conditions of scientific and technological progress, the controlled system becomes very complex.

As for the power elite, these are people. people cannot significantly increase their intellectual level. And sometimes they don’t set themselves such goals. When powerful people realize that the system they manage is becoming more and more complex, they are tempted to simplify everything.

And this is a direct road to a civilizational crisis, which is expressed in the slowdown of scientific and technological progress, the degradation of culture, the militarization of society and the economy, the restriction of civil rights and freedoms, and so on.

All this leads to far-reaching negative consequences.

There's always those people that are at the top of the food chain and we all know about that. What's worrying are those that are at the bottom as they can't go against the situation and they're just there waiting what will be the result of the plans and executions of those that are at the top.

It is the sad reality that there are powerful people that dictates what it should be in the next years of this world.

Somehow worrying but can we do anything against it?

[pixie85]

Living in interesting times is a curse, according to the Chinese.
What makes life interesting is the amount of problems we solve and the obstacles we overcome along the way. Life would've been way more boring and pointless, if everything was just fine and there weren't any difficulties.
There were wars, natural disasters and economic downturns since the dawn of the human civilization. It would be really stupid and naive to think that there won't be any wars, natural disasters and economic downturns in the future.
Maybe we should develop a stoic mindset and learn not to be preoccupied by the negative news, because the bad news are what drives the mainstream media. You know the saying "good news isn't news".

I agree with you here. The years don't seem to be worse if you do some critical thinking.

2020 was really bad we had that covid scare and lockdowns. 2021 was great, bull market on bitcoin, lockdowns being lifted, 2022 was much worse, but mostly because the governments are trying to manipulate the prices of their fiat currencies and stop inflation that they themselves caused by printing money in 2021. I'm positive about 2023 though. As we approac bitcoin halving and they won't be able to increase rates anymore, we should do ok, at least if you're smart enough to accumulate bitcoin.

[RockBell]

I hope this year should be more pleasant because the last few years have been difficult, starting from 2020 actually down to 2021, with the pandemic taking many lives and upsetting the economies of nations, but most importantly lives in every situation life should be taken into consideration looking at the war between Russia and Ukraine affect not only the citizen but also the world global market, inflation hitting every were, and oil becoming expensive things is just happening.

[Smartprofit]

I don't think you're overexaggerating. What you've observed are for real happening and it seems not worrying for some as they're not experiencing those effects especially the climate change.

We may seem to be done with the pandemic but remember that it's still there, no matter how loosen the restrictions are right now, still it is still existing.

I believe that it will calm down soon, it is not going to be forever that we'll have this extreme inflation and shortage of almost everything. Coming from food, to wheat and as well as experiencing the high prices for energy/oil.

Some futurologists predict a civilizational rollback for humanity.

They explain their pessimistic forecasts as follows - in the management system, the governing bodies should be more complex than the controlled system. In the conditions of scientific and technological progress, the controlled system becomes very complex.

As for the power elite, these are people. people cannot significantly increase their intellectual level. And sometimes they don’t set themselves such goals. When powerful people realize that the system they manage is becoming more and more complex, they are tempted to simplify everything.

And this is a direct road to a civilizational crisis, which is expressed in the slowdown of scientific and technological progress, the degradation of culture, the militarization of society and the economy, the restriction of civil rights and freedoms, and so on.

All this leads to far-reaching negative consequences.

There's always those people that are at the top of the food chain and we all know about that. What's worrying are those that are at the bottom as they can't go against the situation and they're just there waiting what will be the result of the plans and executions of those that are at the top.

It is the sad reality that there are powerful people that dictates what it should be in the next years of this world.

Somehow worrying but can we do anything against it?

Yes, even in the face of a growing civilizational crisis, people can do something useful.  The most important thing is to preserve the elements of culture and technology and pass them on to the next generations.  

Dark ages of civilizational crisis can last for a very long time (for example, 500 years).

 It is very important to pass on to your children the dream of a bright and interesting life, of intercontinental air travel, the Internet, VR and space exploration.  

At the same time, as a tactical goal, you need to provide yourself and your family with food and electricity.

[bitgolden]

Living in interesting times is a curse, according to the Chinese.
What makes life interesting is the amount of problems we solve and the obstacles we overcome along the way. Life would've been way more boring and pointless, if everything was just fine and there weren't any difficulties.
There were wars, natural disasters and economic downturns since the dawn of the human civilization. It would be really stupid and naive to think that there won't be any wars, natural disasters and economic downturns in the future.
Maybe we should develop a stoic mindset and learn not to be preoccupied by the negative news, because the bad news are what drives the mainstream media. You know the saying "good news isn't news".

I would love to try though . I mean wouldn't it be awesome if you had no money problems, no love problems, no health problems, no problems whatsoever basically and whatever you wanted to do, you did it without any hesitation? I am not saying that it's the way to live, sure that must have some issues as well depending on how you got there but I would love to at least try it.

I had my fair share of issues, thank god I am doing better than most people, maybe like 5 billion people live worse than me but 3 billion live better than me, I would rather go to a stage where 7.5 billion lives worse than me and only half a billion lives better than me . That would be great lol.

[Viscore]

Perhaps my sitting all alone in my bed on New Year's Eve isn't helping.

Actually I think that is the main point... Problems, crisis, climate changes and conflicts have always been present in a global level every years, but we tend to over-absorb all these negative news when we are in a bad mood and discontented with our own lives, especially during Christmas and New Year, when it should be the happiest moment of the year, to be shared with people we love reciprocally.

Anyway, happy new year to everyone and good luck on your bitcoin endeavors!

Happy New Year to you as well! That 2023 may be different in a personal level, because the problems of the world aren't solvable!

The reason why despite all those negative circumstances that made us struggle in life, we should still stay having positive mindset and avoid all those negativity in life because that will only destruct our future perspectives in life. Let’s just accept the fact that there will always be inevitable problems that will sure to occur, but at least we’re not that weak that can’t withstand all those life’s challenges.

[freedomgo]

I don't know how to describe this emotion, but every year that passes seems progressively worse than the previous one in a variety of ways. The last few years seem to be going downhill, with something unpleasant occurring every single year. In 2020 and 2021, we suffered enough with Covid-19, in 2022, we thought that we'd possibly get a break, but nope, the war started on February, which was followed by excessive inflation and an economic recession.

We're now entering 2023, and things aren't looking any better. Inflation keeps worsening, energy and oil prices are extremely volatile, while in our case in Greece and Italy, despite MWH being the cheapest it has been since the invasion, we're holding the record for the most expensive energy prices.



On top of that, a few days before 2023, half of the U.S.A. is suffering a terrible blizzard, with temperatures even reaching as low as -50C. Climate change is real, and it's only going to get worse in the following years.

I'm not sure if everything has gone downhill in the past few years or if I'm overexaggerating and making it sound worse than it really is. Perhaps my sitting all alone in my bed on New Year's Eve isn't helping.

Anyway, happy new year to everyone and good luck on your bitcoin endeavors!

Obviously you are just in a state of negativity that’s why you end up over absorbing all the negative incidents that had happened in the whole world. And definitely, this will not bring any good for you, even to all of us. As a matter of fact, I don’t see everything going downhill, although there are some of those that we can’t do nothing but to leave them where they are right now. Just don’t dwell in negativity, otherwise you’ll be left behind because you were too busy thinking of them while others have already made great decisions that made them advanced and ahead of you.

[coupable]

Changes currently in the global economy are mainly controlled by the climatic factor, especially climate changes that affect the needs of societies and thus affect their economies. 
Everything that we witness happening, whether by nature or by human hands, is a direct result of climatic changes, the effect of which appears as aftershocks in various aspects, the most important of which is the economy.  And with the passing of the years without working on a solution to these crises, the problem will exacerbate and each year is worse than the one that preceded it. 
The problem with this assessment is that solutions cannot be partially adopted and that the whole world must unite in order to make the future better than the past.

[n0ne]

I don't know how to describe this emotion, but every year that passes seems progressively worse than the previous one in a variety of ways. The last few years seem to be going downhill, with something unpleasant occurring every single year. In 2020 and 2021, we suffered enough with Covid-19, in 2022, we thought that we'd possibly get a break, but nope, the war started on February, which was followed by excessive inflation and an economic recession.

We're now entering 2023, and things aren't looking any better. Inflation keeps worsening, energy and oil prices are extremely volatile, while in our case in Greece and Italy, despite MWH being the cheapest it has been since the invasion, we're holding the record for the most expensive energy prices.

https://i.ibb.co/WDjF9gm/RDT-20221231-1223366657669192358731182.png

On top of that, a few days before 2023, half of the U.S.A. is suffering a terrible blizzard, with temperatures even reaching as low as -50C. Climate change is real, and it's only going to get worse in the following years.

I'm not sure if everything has gone downhill in the past few years or if I'm overexaggerating and making it sound worse than it really is. Perhaps my sitting all alone in my bed on New Year's Eve isn't helping.

Anyway, happy new year to everyone and good luck on your bitcoin endeavors!

Obviously you are just in a state of negativity that’s why you end up over absorbing all the negative incidents that had happened in the whole world. And definitely, this will not bring any good for you, even to all of us. As a matter of fact, I don’t see everything going downhill, although there are some of those that we can’t do nothing but to leave them where they are right now. Just don’t dwell in negativity, otherwise you’ll be left behind because you were too busy thinking of them while others have already made great decisions that made them advanced and ahead of you.

Everytime we can't be positive. At times the negativity too gains value. What we encounter with bitcoin is the same. We need to observe the market and if something negative is happening around it is time to make it as an opportunity. Not many of them does it, because the panic will always be a hurdle for them. With cryptocurrency people will be left behind if they weren't able to take risks.

[famososMuertos]

OP: Thank you for your good wishes for a happy new year.  Let's start there, the positive, there is no other way to continue, the data must be treated to have decision-making in a positive spirit.

 You are very pessimistic, although not being so should not take us away from the reality that you mention, sometimes each situation is very individual, and your perception, although real, affects the individual in different ways.

[South Park]

Obviously you are just in a state of negativity that’s why you end up over absorbing all the negative incidents that had happened in the whole world. And definitely, this will not bring any good for you, even to all of us. As a matter of fact, I don’t see everything going downhill, although there are some of those that we can’t do nothing but to leave them where they are right now. Just don’t dwell in negativity, otherwise you’ll be left behind because you were too busy thinking of them while others have already made great decisions that made them advanced and ahead of you.

It is obvious that things are not going well, but since we are powerless to stop the way the world is moving then the only thing we can do is to prepare ourselves to the best of our ability to try to resits whatever the world throws at us, however I agree the OP is being overly negative, as it is not as if this is the first time in history this has happened, as we have many examples of periods of history that were many times more turbulent than now and yet the people at the time made it through them.

[milewilda]

OP: Thank you for your good wishes for a happy new year.  Let's start there, the positive, there is no other way to continue, the data must be treated to have decision-making in a positive spirit.

 You are very pessimistic, although not being so should not take us away from the reality that you mention, sometimes each situation is very individual, and your perception, although real, affects the individual in different ways.

Cant really blame out others if they are really that negative basing up on the things that we are really indeed seeing which they do really have some that point on which it is really becoming progressively worsen up
on each year passing by this is why it is really hard to make yourself that positive if you are already seeing up these things which you would really be having that kind of impression that its better not to make yourself
that hopeful or being optimistic so that you wont really be that be frustrated or get disappointed for whatever price conditions that we might encounter on upcoming years to come.
There's no such guarantee though since this had been like this since from the start.

[irhact]

It's all our fault, what we've done to nature for centuries, and now it's time for us to pay the consequences. For the sake of improving the lives of people and making their lives more comfortable, we have exploited, degraded, and destroyed nature, creating hundreds of thousands of products that make the earth a hotter and more polluted place...Not to mention just because of power, countries take turns arming nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, and weapons tests have created a large amount of emissions. I think our earth will become arid just like the sci-fi movies we are watching.

But judging from what I read on the OP this isn't about nature or climate change, instead it's about how we humans are making things worse for ourselves. The COVID-19 pandemic wasn't nature made instead was a virus generated in the lab some sort of  attack by the chinese on the western world. Things will only get worse from here and we should brace ourselves because we haven't experienced what others before us did and we're already complaining.

When we talk about recession, what we are experiencing now isn't close to what happened in 1929 or 2008. We're just testing what it'll look like when market crashes and it leads to a recession that'll be felt ten times more than what we're feeling now. I think the world need some reset and that's why it seems each years is bringing it's own problem, we have to start afresh.