The end of abundance
I mentioned to a friend we're nearing the end of the age of abundance in human civilization. To my surprise he was like what age of abundance, and proceeded to go on about all the people who lack enough. My response was people who lack resources or are poor are not due to insufficient resources, but lack of access and unequal distribution. This is the peak of resource availability, we have more food, energy, material goods than any point in human history. Yet there are people who still go without.
So, if you think it's bad now, wait until there's not enough. Then things will really get ugly. We can't share when there's more than enough to go around, how do you think people will react when there isn't? Oh wait, we saw that with covid where people were fighting in grocery stores.
We may start to see the age of scarcity begin this summer across the west due to Iran and the subsequent impacts from the war. Buckle up!