>>57778126We allowed debt to *completely* replace value.
Value societies are driven to create value, building/investing in their own communities, developing synergies that raise those societies.
Debt societies are driven to survive, with peons hustling while Owners are enriched and ennobled by steady flows of interest that the legal system sanctions and protects.
There is a cursed problem in this. While the value society can rise, it develops at the rate of the production of actual value, which tends to slow down since resource development is limited the value is spread across the entire society. As the society expands it destabilizes may collapse under its own weight. Since debt is not something real like gold, salt, tea, ore, (and can grow mathematically and without limit) the debt society can go from horse carriage to robots on Mars in a century. But it also leads to a society split between debt owners and slaves shackled by what they owe. Any society that sees education not as investment in itself but a debt generating opportunity is fucked.
>>57778182The reason is cowardice.
Social Media has created a deep seated fear of being rejected by the group.
Cancellation is a manifestation of that rejection. Zoomers having never created actual relationships are legitimately threatened by that.
This fear leads to linguistic mutations that belie this oppressive terror.
E.g., some time during the rise of Social Media and cancel culture, the collective realized that if A "likes" B and B is saying something that triggers a cancel response, A can be swept up in the virtual pogrom. So Zoomers stopped saying, "you're right," and started saying, "you're not wrong." This Newspeak avoids the liability of agreeing with somebody while still limply painting in this negative space. Plus, it underlines another instilled fear, of being wrong, since wrongness is also savagely punished, even when what is labeled "wrong" happens to also be fact. But that's a different Zoomer+ issue.
