u/Vegetaman916

Lately I've been feeling incredibly burnt out by work. It's so much for so little. Interestingly, I brought this up with one of my vendors and he said the same thing.

'It's not fun anymore. You work twice as hard for half the reward."

I've been noticing this feeling within myself. Whenever there's a geopolitical event that puts the breaks on the wheels of capitalism - I feel really glad. I find myself wanting lockdowns again.

I had this happen in my part of the world (UAE). Because of the Iran War crisis work was frequently being paused, delayed, or advised to be done from home.

I've been talking to some rich folks in my region and they told me, because of the war property prices have gone down by 30%.

But then I thought to myself - but they rose by 30% last year. So essentially, you're just as wealthy today as you were last year. You're just not getting wealthier.

Meanwhile, most people I know in my industry (marketing) haven't gotten a raise in over a year.

And every asset imaginable is getting priced out of consideration. Gold is too expensive. Buying a home is too expensive. Even stocks are too expensive to buy right now (vanguard predicts a reversion to the mean during the next decade).

And so, I find myself (and I think a lot of people around me feel the same way).

Just crash. Just have a big large crash. Economic. Environmental. Just go boom.

None of this boiling the frog stuff.

And I'm not calling for anyone being harmed. I just feel (collectively as human beings) we are terrible at acting preemptively.

But, we're very good at reacting to and adapting to crisis.

I feel like for some of the larger problems of our world to be solved - the lack of affordability that makes my generation unwilling to have children, climate change, even creative and commercial innovation around us stagnating and degenerating to iteration and enshitification - there needs to be a crisis event.

Something to react to. Human beings, that's the only time we really ever change. That's the only time we ever really learn.

We are starting to see more and more integration of artificial intelligence into the war machines of the worlds global powers, and if that sounds like a line from an old movie... well, it is.

AI was used extensively by the US military in both the decapitation strike in Venezuela as well as the massive bombing campaign across Iran, and now we are starting to see such systems being applied to nuclear warfare.

What makes it truly scary is that such AI systems could be "smart" enough to degrade defenses against first strikes, and thus make nuclear war something seen as "winnable" again for those at the top.

Recently, as quoted by the article, the Trump administration commissioned and released a review of U.S. policies, strategies, and capabilities … "to counter the expanding missile threats posed by rogue states and revisionist powers.” The report called for an escalatory build-out of new capabilities. Among those was a new framework for advancing the notion that preemptive action is actually just another form of defense.

Read that again: Advancing the notion that preemptive action is actually just another form of defense...

This video is something I think a lot of preppers should watch, because it shows a clear pattern of big-picture thought and awareness that we all need to have more of in our day-to-day lives. This is someone who keeps her mind on her home and preparedness, but also her eyes on the bigger picture about what it all means, and why things are happening the way they are. No illusions here, no allowing one's own biases and beliefs to affect thinking about how the world actually works. This video is a great example of real global awareness and clear knowledge of what things like war and scarcity are really about. For the preppers here, go check out Doomsday Queen on YouTube, you won't be disappointed.

Hey everyone! I'm u/Vegetaman916, the founding moderator of r/WastelandByWednesday.

This is our new home for all things related to the collapse of global civilization and how to prepare ourselves to survive it. Glad you're here, but it sucks that such a subject is gaining in the mainstream...

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When I talk about climate change and resource scarcity being a primary driver of the coming wars around the world, and eventual nuclear confrontation, this is the perfect example of what I mean.

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Water is life. Without it, you die, your people die, your nation dies.

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And when your nation is a nuclear armed one? That means you no longer care about being annihilated because you are going down anyway. Better to go down taking your enemy with you, and if you think that is an outdated concept, perhaps you should do some research into cultures outside the US and Western Europe. The ideas of honor-killings, state approved I might add, are alive and well elsewhere, and that translates to the national level as well.

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After you check this story out, go read up about what even a small, or "limited" nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan means for the world...

This subreddit, due to the majority of people who seem to haunt the comment sections like the ghosts of year old farts, is a negative resource for felons.

Felons do not need the moralizing of non-felons. They do not need to hear you tell them to "stop committing crime," or to "be better people." They already are better people, just by virtue of having passed through that fire.

What felons need is advice from other felons, about how to navigate the world with those rap sheets. About how to use whatever tricks and tips they can to get a leg up over the do-gooders of this world who seem to believe that they are owed fairness and prosperity by sheer virtue of their own moral superiority.

You aren't helping with that nonsense. You aren't superior. And should you ever have the terrible luck to find yourself walking a GP yard somewhere, you might find out why.

Felons are often people who tried to take on a system that turns everyone into wage-slaves, and usually, they lose. But they tried, at least. They tried to say "fuck no" to your 40-hour work weeks, your two weeks vacation, and your shitty pay that can't really support the lives they see others living by virtue of a fancy birth.

They tried. They failed. And they are now branded for that failure, set loose to serve as an example to the rest of tye sheep about what happens if you get to big for your britches and think you are a free human being or something.

They failed. But they tried.

Not all of them. Some few can figure it out. They can beat the system, at least here and there, a little bit, and *those* are the people who need to be commenting. *Those* are the folks who need to school the others, so the lessons of their mistakes can be learned without having to be repeated.

Feel free to DM for my sheet, anyone who is curious.

Because whenever I get the chance, I won't produce bullshit. I won't parrot the ethical garbage of society back at every question asked here. I will do my best to actually try and help a felon. Help them get a leg up on the rest of you no-load, cake-eating, pocket-change-jingling do-gooders out there who are still, *still* trying to sabotage people.

I get it. Jealousy, envy, shame, these are powerful motivators for spite. You shouldn't let them get the better of you, but you're sheep after all, and we can't really expect you to have the spine necessary to tell it like it is.

So please, maybe just don't say anything at all, yeah? Isn't that one if those vaunted do-gooder principles, "Of you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all?"

That may be one of the few sound ones in that bag of jumbled bootlicking and societally conditioned bullcrap y'all call morals.

Felons need advice from felons. And soon to be sent up ones need advice from *convicts,* and not *inmates.*

And if you don't know the difference, you're the latter.

Hit me with your downvotes, so I can *not* care.