Was just trying to explain to someone why everything is going to shit, specifically companies, and realized, I don’t fully get it either.
I’ve got the following explanation. The sentences marked with “???” are were I’m lost. Anyone mind telling me, if they’re correct and if so, why?
The past few years, central banks were giving out interest rates of 0% or even negative percentages. Regular banks would not quite pass this on, but you could still loan money and give it back later with no real interest payments.
This lead to lots of people investing in companies. As long as those companies paid out more money than those low interest rates, it was worthwhile. But at the same time, this meant companies didn’t have to be profitable, because they could pay out investors from money that other investors gave them???
This has stopped being the case, as central banks are hiking interest rates again, to combat inflation???
I somewhat agree.
The thing is that even if we did everything perfectly, the human race would still reproduce until it is unsustainable. It is in our nature.
We are supposed to be animals, but at some point (discovery of agriculture) we detached from the food chain and defied mother nature. It is not possible to be sustainable from this point onwards.
Personally I believe that human conscienceness was a mistake in evolution. If I could press a button that would kill billions of people including myself I would do so without hesitation.
Recommend reading the thoughts of Pentti Linkola.
Sure, if you ignore the fact that global birthrates are falling, and sharply in some places.
Yeah that’s because we hit max population. Population will start decreasing pretty soon I think.
I said that if we lived “sustainably” we would reproduce until we couldn’t anymore