america has been on the cusp of an everything crisis for 10 years
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2026
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That's the whole quantity transforming into quality thing. Problems often build up over time, and they're not visible on the surface because the system is able to amortize them internally. So, it can look like nothing is visibly happening, but then once the existing stocks become depleted and it's no longer possible to amortize the problems, big events like economic crashes occur seemingly out of nowhere. A great book on the whole thing I can highly recommend https://research.fit.edu/media/site-specific/researchfitedu/coast-climate-adaptation-library/climate-communications/psychology-amp-behavior/Meadows-2008.-Thinking-in-Systems.pdf
You just verbalized a concept that bothered me for a long time already. Thank you for the read!
O7
Just think, this article doesn't even get into the rising labor costs from the ICE terror regime and is only focused on material inputs.
oh yeah that's not gonna help things
I'm a local and I didn't realize how much fertilizers were produced by the GCC countries until recently.
https://www.wired.me/story/the-gulf-built-a-fertiliser-superpower-now-its-under-strain
Today, the Gulf accounts for about 29% of globally traded ammonia and 36% of urea –making it one of the most critical nodes in the global food system and, by extension, one of its most exposed.
Bill Gates owns a fuckton of farm land. Looks like he’s going to buy more soon.
His plan of becoming a feudal lord with peasants toiling on his land is coming along nicely.
Hopefully
It's looking more and more like it since Trump took office