dtcwee: The Value of Nothing

Emotional Intelligence: yet another thing we can beat ourselves up for not having. Why? The jobs and therefore income of the future will belong to those with a high 'EQ - emotional quotient'. IQ-heavy roles are about to go the way of manual labour. White collar is the new blue collar. Software and robots will replace nerds and jocks respectively. Only the popular kids - those who can creatively connect clients and contacts - will be spared. The future consists of fluffing enthusiastically to keep your five star rating.

Money printers go 'brrr ... ains'. 🧟 And that's okay. Monetary expansion and lowering interest rates is often criticised for keeping alive zombie firms.

Rural regions may want revitalisation without repopulation. "Elections are not won by a majority of the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down." -- Paul Weyrich , Conservative political activist.