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Originally Posted by Pythonic
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Originally Posted by wufwugy
this could easily be the beginning of the worst depression in our nations history.
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Ummm no, it won't even come close to the great depression. Gas is still dirt cheap in the U.S. so stop all this whining. If people are broke then they need to get their ass to college and get a better job. It's every man for themselves, stop blaming someone else. |
youre thinking short and narrow when you should be thinking long and wide. i did not say this IS, but this could be the beginning of. could be a decade or half a dozen decades from now, but it is definitely inevitable if energy supply does not replenish.
gas may be dirt cheap now (its not, it used to be), but what about when its 20$, 50$, 150$ a gallon? it will eventually be if we rely on oil long enough. also, prices at the pump are not the entire picture. they're actually a smaller part of the picture affected by oil crisis. since just about everything that transports, and all large machines rely on oil, prices of everything will skyrocket.
whats it gonna be like when gas is 20$ a gallon at pump, video games are 100$ USD, bananas are 3$ a pound, etc?
comparing to what this can become to the great depression is a little off, though because they are a little different in causes and solutions.
also dude, your last two sentences are mega naive. if somebody's broke, they do not have the money or time to go to college, as well as college is not the cure all it used to be. not to mention that as prices go up jobs will decrease.
you last sentence is a strawman of economy, for starters. it also sorta represents the tragedy of the commons. it is not black and white as you say.