Ask HN: I am losing hope in humanity. What should I do?
&gt;Is losing faith&#x2F;hope in humanity something others experience as well?<p>Generally considered the &#x27;doomer&#x27; political circle. No proper political alignment, often seen as purple or populist. Also not necessarily a pessimistic world view.<p>&gt;s it due to the way i perceive things (i.e. my entourage)?<p>Most likely yes, but can be independently derived.<p>&gt;Am I in a bubble and I don&#x27;t see it? How do I get out? Should I be in a bubble to keep my sanity? How do I build those filters?<p>Everyone is in a bubble. Imagine a venn diagram of things you know and things you dont know. That&#x27;s your bubble. Being in a bubble isn&#x27;t inherently bad. Being in an echo chamber is bad and the probability you are in an echo chamber is very high. To evaluate if you&#x27;re in an echo chamber, pretend to say something you dont agree with inside your echo chamber just see how it&#x27;s reacted to. &quot;climate change is false for X reason&quot;<p>&gt;- climate change or how society&#x2F;corporations&#x2F;governments are destroying the environment and&#x2F;or are barely doing anything. All I think about sometimes is how we&#x27;ll begin to see famines spreading across poor countries until it&#x27;s all too late... Yet Elon buying Twitter is still in the news till this day.<p>Climate change is often the first one in the doomer field lately. Take extinction rebellion for example, or the maya calendar or y2k doomers. They are all climate change now. Their climate change echo chamber is quite problematic.<p>All this 10 years left or various ultimatums are absurd. They&#x27;ve been saying it&#x27;ll be 10 years for decades. We&#x27;re on take 5 or so. In reality climate change is never going to properly threaten human life. We are going to do what is right at the right time and it&#x27;ll be solved.<p>We have probably 30-40 years to solve this problem without any major controversy.<p>&gt;- social inequality is rising year on year. inflation is a killer for poor families that are barely making ends meet. Yet most corporations are announcing lots of profits and they barely give a sh*t about their workers.<p>Totally a problem. Will inflation lead to mass death or something? No. Social inequality is a problem that is really hard to solve. It derives heavily from the ability to take of debt. &quot;credit score&quot; disallows the peasants from taking on debt and therefore end up missing out on a force multiplier that leads to social inequality. How do you fix this? Given poor people debt? We saw how that worked out after glass-steagal repeal.<p>No society in history has ever had a system that eliminated social inequality and frankly I don&#x27;t think there ever will be for quite some time. If someone got into fights in high school, got their 51% and gets blackout drunk every day after their mcjob. Their outcome in society must be less than a doctor who did all the extra work to be qualified to be a doctor and saves lives. It builds an incentive system to build people into doctors and not mcjobs.<p>&gt;- workers: all I hear is there&#x27;s a shortage of workers. shortage, shortage, shortage. But they rarely talk about salaries and wages being so low.<p>This actually has to social equality measures.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unemployment#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:US_Labor_Force_Participation_Rate_by_gender.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unemployment#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:US_La...</a><p>In the 1950s before equality ~85% of men were employed. 35% of women. Overall about 60% of society were employed. Today men are around 65% and women are 55%. Yet still around 60% in total. So what happened was we displaced useless men into homelessness and took useful women and told them not to have babies. Which happened within a generation. Birthrates in 1950 compared to 1980 is night a day bad.<p>Tons of benefits from doing this. We have a more productive and more useful population. Egalitarianism was tremendously successful and the few countries that dont do this today are harming themselves. But what did that do? It produced more workers in supply but total jobs more or less stayed the same. Demand didnt change. Simply supply vs demand. Workers are going to be paid less.<p>We do have some consequences to deal with... but absolutely nobody is considering going back. There&#x27;s great news here for workers and it&#x27;s just starting now. It&#x27;s the worker shortage of 2030. It&#x27;s set it stone. Come 2030 the world war 2 countries are going to be hurting bigtime.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ux1GxExRUUY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ux1GxExRUUY</a><p>&gt;- billionaires: ugh, enough about these megalomaniacs.<p>When warren buffet became a millionaire, it wasn&#x27;t the same as a millionaire today. Owning a 2bed 1 bath in toronto is worth over a million and you&#x27;re a millionaire. Inflation over time. In maybe 100 years inflation will make everyone billionaires.<p>Billionaires existing is not really a thing anyone. It&#x27;s not like Bezos literally has a billion $ in the bank account. He owns things that sum up to maybe being worth billions. He has no actual way of consuming those billions. So in reality it&#x27;s not a problem at all. He contributed tons to society and people rewarded him.<p>The last thing you want to do is punish or stop this. Amassing wealth and being unable to every spend it means everyone is more wealthy than if they hadnt. Removing billionaires, you deincentivize anyone else to do useful things in your society. You basically kill your own society.<p>&gt;- media: it&#x27;s feeding people rubbish all the time. All. The. Time.<p>Big time. In reality they&#x27;ve been lying to us forever. We are just catching them now. Not really something that changed to affect your losing hope in humanity. If anything we&#x27;re about to fix this.<p>&gt;- corruption: it&#x27;s so wide spread, people have become desensitized. war... famines... I could go on...<p>Check out this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w</a><p>The world is amazing. Things are great, there&#x27;s no more third world countries. That video is 15 years old. I read his book. Things have actually improved significantly since that video.<p>Poverty worldwide is being redefined because it&#x27;s getting better and better. Practically the whole world is getting connected to the internet allowing them access to unlimited knowledge. Places like Africa who don&#x27;t care about patents can steal every single idea from the patent system. They are rapidly building up their societies.<p>This huge increase in development is going to raise everyone to today&#x27;s standards in the west. Meanwhile the west is on the verge of 1 big thing. The end of scarcity.<p>You might have say $50,000 in your bank account right now. In the end of scarcity world that $50,000 produces every good you ever need. Solves every service you ever need the rest of your life. You get to do things that can&#x27;t be programatically done. That&#x27;s an ideal world.<p>The future looks amazing.