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Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sun, 06 July 2025, 12:02:25 »I have asked them, very specifically, "Do you think that we did the right thing in bringing you into the world?" and they were very enthusiastically glad to exist, even though they have certainly had their low places.
Of course, THEY'RE glad, this is the absolute BEST TIME to be alive, especially in America.
With very little actual labor, we get to eat food, and heck go on vacation 2 weeks a year. Oh you can splitter splatter on a keyboard and money just comes out?, whaaaaa.... Ask anyone in the last 10,000 years, how many people were able to not break a literal sweat and get "fed" by society.
There is no doubt this IS the best time to be alive.
Tp4's point is, this time is very short. And it's about to end CATASTROPHICALLY.
Below is world energy use, Peak oil is around 2018, we're past it. The yellow line is the rough expectation.
The Graph Left bottom is your typical mining depletion graph, and the bottom right is the exponential increase in COST, you go from cheap easily mine-able material, to increasingly more and more difficult to amortize plays.
We've exhausted all of the easy to get oil, we're down to the last drop of economically feasible (EROI) of oil. This is also the case with MANY critical minerals.
That is to say, what's happening, is that, EVEN IF there is more stuff in the ground, it's NOT in a condition (low concentration) that it would be POSITIVE economically to GET IT.
For example, we used to be able to find giant Nuggets of Copper just like nuggets of GOLD, NOW, we have to grind up entire mountains of copper ore, to get copper.
You would spend MORE ENERGY to get the difficult-Oil than that oil is worth. The knock on effect of energy pricing across ALL markets is Armageddon relative to what a person might expect "Life To Be Like."
