Every passing year seems progressively worse

[AmoreJaz]

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.

and that i believe, would be hard for humanity. start afresh. what we can do today is accept the reality and move forward. those lessons learned in the past years can be used to survive in the future. we can't avoid such struggles on this planet. we just learn how to adapt the changing environment. this is why there is called survival of the fittest. if you won't do anything for yourself, then no one will.

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[Sebas.tian]

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.

I think, this year 2023 will be a better year than last year 2022, because many countries are seriously working to put an end to this high inflation that is affecting their economy and other things in the land. There are positive signs that made people to believed that they will use this year 2023 to recover from all their losses they had experienced during the pandemic and war between Ukraine and Russia, because the two president are very ready to embrace peace. I believe, deflation will definitely occur before the end of this year 2023, that will help people to live a happy life and to improve in all areas of their business in the communities

[Kelvinid]

I really felt it, it was not only in our economy but we are also struggling with climate change and many of our countrymen had suffered the terrible impact of the changes.
People are busy inventing new projects, new technology, etc in order to advance when it comes to economic growth. We see strong competition but on the other side, many people had suffered from it, and many people got starved and die from hunger. I don't want to expect the worse possible scenario in the future but I think, we have to prepare for it as it was been started already.

[Raflesia]

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.

I think, this year 2023 will be a better year than last year 2022, because many countries are seriously working to put an end to this high inflation that is affecting their economy and other things in the land. There are positive signs that made people to believed that they will use this year 2023 to recover from all their losses they had experienced during the pandemic and war between Ukraine and Russia, because the two president are very ready to embrace peace. I believe, deflation will definitely occur before the end of this year 2023, that will help people to live a happy life and to improve in all areas of their business in the communities

Hope is like that but we also don't know what will happen in the future with the condition of panic about the Recession and some news in it obviously this will be a little more difficult even though it's clear that everyone hopes for the best for 2023 but on the other hand we can't do anything a lot is just hope and continuing to live in the current conditions better in the current conditions.

[Mauser]

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!

Happy new year to you too buddy, let's hope together that 2023 is not going to be as terrible as the last year. Starting the new year alone can bring a lot of memories to mind that usually would be blocked by all the alcohol people drink on New Years. I was over Christmas alone at home with covid and also thought back how terrible the last few years were in my country. Especially the double digit inflation rates we are facing now is worrying me. Food prices have been rising quite a while now, but especially energy prices made a big jump in 2022. In my country it doesn't look we will ever go back to normal energy prices again. The whole process of changing to more renewable energy sources seems to be rushed and the country is not ready for it, then on top of that closing down all the nuclear energy sources is going to make things much worse. I am hoping 2023 is not going to be as bad as expected.

[xSkylarx]

I've noticed this before, for example, after a new year, I hope that the year will be good for us, but it never is because every year all foods and items become more expensive (have you ever noticed a year when the price of foods and other items drops? since I haven't noticed this), there are catastrophes happening in countries, and most of all, normal citizens like us have nothing to do. Since the new year, I've been telling myself that I need to add another source of income because this year is bound to be a big one, so that I can still buy our necessities. This is the only thing I can do instead of doing nothing. 

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

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.

The world situation is indeed undergoing changes in any sector, we have just passed Covid-19, but now inflation and recession are starting to have an impact on the course of the economy, it seems that this suffering will never end, people who have a middle to lower economy will always face this condition.

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.

In fact, in almost many countries the impact of inflation fluctuated, not only in the energy sector, even the food sector and other sectors had quite an impact. The circulation of money in circulation is really unstable and causes a number of local and export products not to be accommodated for their basic needs, so that small communities are again receiving this impact without any solutions being offered by those in authority.

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.

Extreme weather changes are not much worse than the suffering experienced by the small and medium-sized people, due to the effects of inflation and recession which those who have obligations cannot suppress, so many problems have been caused, but there has been no solution as a way out.

While we continue to be forced to live under this problem, there are not many things we can do, on the contrary we are required not to give up with the situation, so the solution must be thought of by each individual.

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.

I'm pretty sure it's getting worse and way worse than in previous years.

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

And happy new year to you too, bitcoin is the hope of changes that we can do independently, believe it or not this will prove over time.

[kryptqnick]

It remains a big and interesting question to me whether we just hit a rough patch of a few years or we are only starting a dark period of humanity's existence that will mark itself with much more suffering to come and possibly with the radical change of the world, and not for the better. I'm generally an optimist, so I hope it's just a rough few years, perhaps a rough decade, which will be followed by a stronger, more progressive, more democratic world. But so far, it's not looking well, I agree. That being said, it's possible to find joy and to value life even under bad circumstances, unless they are severely bad. And learning to be more mindful of spending resources, including electricity, is just a good thing to do in general.

[glendall]

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

fun doesn't have to be done outside, with bad climate conditions, it makes us closer to family gathering and praying together so that in the new year we can get through our difficult times in the previous year

never regret your situation, friends, enjoy the process that is given because everything will end with our efforts to avoid this bad economy

[fadhilz123]

fun doesn't have to be done outside, with bad climate conditions, it makes us closer to family gathering and praying together so that in the new year we can get through our difficult times in the previous year

Gathering with family is important and also a very enjoyable thing. But for some people, they also want to take their family for a walk around tourist attractions that are not so far from where they live because this can also provide pleasure for them and their family. Moreover, this kind of thing is rarely done in a year because it is always busy with routine work that gets in the way.

never regret your situation, friends, enjoy the process that is given because everything will end with our efforts to avoid this bad economy

That is very true, because regret is an attitude that has no meaning at all, so continuing to work continuously is the solution to avoiding bad economic problems. After all, every result of work is worth enjoying even in bad conditions, because the comfort of life is born from enjoying the results of work, not from refraining from not enjoying anything in life.

[Obari]

Thank you so much senior @OP because I've also sat down to think about how everything has turned so bad ever after the covid and I think we've been swimming from one issues to another and every issue seems worst than the previous one.
In my my country, we battled with COVID and just as we were struggling with the covid, we started battling with police (SARS) brutality, where the police that was supposed to be protecting it's citizens, were the ones responsible for killings of its citizens and youth precisely, the citizens protested but to no avail rather there were more shootings and killings.
From battling with police brutality, we jumped to a massive recession and economy cramp as there was massive hike in prices of goods and also services and just as if we were getting used to that, we started battling with fuel and especially petrol price and I think I'm giving up on my country already

[uneng]

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.

I believe ancient times were much worse. Sanitary conditions were inexistent or precarious, common people had less rights, dignity and opportunities, laws were more severe and conflicts between neighboor regions constant.

Take middle ages as example. Battles and conspirations for power were frequent. Barons, nobles insurging against kings, burning, decapitating, hanging and butchering each other always they had an opportunity to show their rule. Religious persecutions against who they considered heretics, with no rights to fair, impartial judgement. Pandemics like The Black Death, which took from 75 to 200 million lives in Europe. Segregation against inferior classes, which didn't have opportunity to thrive in life, even if they worked hard, with few exceptions. Low life standards, total discomfort, bad eating habits, low life expectation (someone on their 40's would be an elder already).

If people from those times thought about our times, I think they would believe we live in a reality very close to Heaven...

[Chrlie95]

Unfortunately I think COVID is responsible for a lot of the economic turmoil that's happened over the last year more so than the war is responsible. Even though COVID itself ended in 2021, the amount of money countries spent to keep their economies alive while young, able-bodied workers were not allowed to work will have impacted the global economy for years.

The war is partly responsible for the energy price hikes, but just about everything else has at least some trace back to the COVID hysteria where trillions were wiped from the global economy because the government found it prudent to keep people locked in their homes and disallowed them from working. Doesn't seem like it was worth it.

I totally agree. It's crazy how all the governments handled the covid situation so poorly. Not only did they not get the virus under control, but they also completely messed up the economy. Trillions of dollars were lost because they thought it was a good idea to keep people locked up in their homes and not allow them to work. It's just insane that panic and unwise cautions messed up the economy. Now, we became the ones that has to pay for this bad governance.

[Finestream]

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.

True. What we are experiencing right now are just the outcome from the input we have been making even centuries ago. So we should not blame it all to the government as they are not solely responsible for all of these but us. Although inflation can still be controlled if only the government had become cautious in the start, but this time, I think it’s now becoming unstoppable. Maybe this is now the best time to reflect, and think of possible solutions that will help combat from all of these negative scenarios, if not, maybe we can just avoid or shortened their time duration.

[misterrtwisterr]

The universe is cyclic. Therefore, everything else is, including our lives and our world. Good and bad periods come and go. Last decade was rather calm, and I believe new bad period started with Covid. Just keep in mind we're generally much better off than our ancestors, and even though it seems like world is going to hell, we still live better than any of our ancestors ever did.

[Russlenat]

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!

What we have seen at the moment are those inevitable circumstances that are impossible to resolve at the moment, so it might be good for us to just live with them. Otherwise, we will end up putting more pressures on ourselves and living with life’s negativity which I think is not really helpful for us. Especially that we are now in a new year, so that means new beginnings and new perspectives in life.

[stomachgrowls]

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!

What we have seen at the moment are those inevitable circumstances that are impossible to resolve at the moment, so it might be good for us to just live with them. Otherwise, we will end up putting more pressures on ourselves and living with life’s negativity which I think is not really helpful for us. Especially that we are now in a new year, so that means new beginnings and new perspectives in life.

Why people still got surprised with these things considering that these turns out to be that inevitable or something that cant be avoided?

The thing you can do is on how you would make yourself that survive despite of these conditions.Its true that on each year which it is progressively becomes worst due into those things that we are
seeing becoming even more problematic which it would really be just common sense that you would be needing to have back up plans to make yourself sustainable at least.

[Inwestour]

These are not easy times for the world economy, but this is normal, because everything moves in cycles, after a long period of growth, recession is a natural phenomenon. It just needs to be experienced, because after that favorable times, growth and development will come again. By the way, mankind had to go through much more difficult times, so as long as you are sitting well-fed and warm, then everything is not so bad.

The climate is changing this way, but you should not be surprised at this, according to scientists, it has always been like this. People have learned to adapt to new realities, and it will be the same in the future.

[jrrsparkles]

I don’t reckon with what you just said, let’s be truthful 2020 was was than 2021, 2020 saw the peak of the covid 19 virus and saw the shut down of countries personally it was my first time of ever witnessing, a total and complete shutdown of countries.

The fact remains that 2020 was worse that the recents year we have had after it and even before it. Also in crypto-Currency we saw an all Time high in bitcoin and so many other coins.

But the fact is, in 2022 many people lost their jobs and prices of everything is going up while there is no increase in salary or in worsen they don't have any job to afford anything. In 2020 government provided money whereas in 2022 they act like nothing is happening and focusing on development while millions of people are living their daily life in extreme hard situation.

[Davian144]

The universe is cyclic. Therefore, everything else is, including our lives and our world. Good and bad periods come and go. Last decade was rather calm, and I believe new bad period started with Covid. Just keep in mind we're generally much better off than our ancestors, and even though it seems like world is going to hell, we still live better than any of our ancestors ever did.

If you compare the past decades with the present, it is clear that the present is better because there is already a lot of technology that can be felt and utilized by everyone. But it is more appropriate to compare the bad period one or two years ago with the present so that everyone knows where the root cause of the bad things happened.

Actually, for now everyone can still be grateful because they can still enjoy the world and enjoy the income from their respective jobs, but the problem at this point is that there are so few things that can be enjoyed that there are still more people who complain about the conditions and a difficult situation for them to face now.