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It actually came up when I was doing research on my future-history setting actually. While nukes exist, the thing about them is that they're -geopolitically- giant paperweights that anyone sane is far too scared to use. Everyone made them because they're the most powerful weapon created, but...

Here's the thing, the pre-WW1 world was economically integrated along colonial lines outside of a few vital materials like nitrates. WW2 came about because in part due to resource needs being behind colonial powers that weren't going to share without screwing you over. Leaders of the US saw this...

The only other choice is death and sorrow, so that is the sad situation. :(

Here's the thing, it is either that or have their families die to starvation/disease/whatever. When faced with either having a chance to change that or die, they will take the chance to change it and die trying. People like Huey Long and UBI proponents know this, so to stop that possibility they...

That is until you get hated enough, as Machiavelli said, you must avoid being hated at all costs. As jobs dry up, more people are around to stew and then you've got your pretext for revolution.

That isn't going to work, for it'll simply make things worse.

It is increasingly is sadly enough. Think of it in the grand scale politics of things, if globalization -i.e. trade enforced by the US military at the end of a gun barrel- is to end today, we'll be waging wars for resources faster than you can say 'oh shit'. It'll be back to the 'bad old days'...

... I asked for that one didn't I? /semi-serious I'm something of a transhumanist myself...

No, the sad thing is that automation and globalization started killing off manufacturing and high-paying primary jobs en-mass back in the late '70s, leaving practically nothing for everyone getting out of high school that could allow for a modest human living. Without well-paying introductory...

This is largely due to the fact that the US as a whole stopped subsidizing colleges in general. The era of 'cheap' college was basically an era where the US basically paid colleges to teach, not to be businesses.

The thing about the college debt problem is that the state has largely stopped basically backing the students with large wads of cash and subsidizing colleges. In addition, there are only two textbook companies in the US and one is from Texas and the other is from California, a duopoly if you...