Topic: Every passing year seems progressively worse - page 4. (Read 1031 times)

The pandemic occurred in 2020 and 2021, we can say we lost a lot of people, but our economy is pumped money by the government to maintain so we will not have too many difficulties. And consequences such as economic crisis and inflation are the results of the pandemic, and we have to struggle with them in a very difficult way.

This year, we have seen a wave of corporate collapses across all industries, causing unemployment, and food and energy shortages greater than during the pandemic. I still consider 2022 the worst year.

If you look closely you would understand as development keep growing the more we face and experience lots of changes in the world. Personally since I was born I have never experienced or witness anything like covid-19 or economic meltdown but just of few years now things has drastically changed, government aren't really helping out  coupled with the decreasing of  unemployment rate going worster every year.  What you should do is to get something doing maybe you won't feel it that much whenever you are occupied you may not come to think of how things are going on with you rather thinking of how to make progress. Every year has there phases of climate change and occurrences so one really needs to be prepared.

Actually I don't think we can compare them because every year is different and there are always challenges.
but speaking of 2022 it is not a good year because many problems continue to occur, especially the war between Russia and Ukraine which makes the price of basic commodities and others increase

If you compare the past decades with the present, it is clear that the present is better because there is already a lot of technology that can be felt and utilized by everyone. But it is more appropriate to compare the bad period one or two years ago with the present so that everyone knows where the root cause of the bad things happened.

Actually, for now everyone can still be grateful because they can still enjoy the world and enjoy the income from their respective jobs, but the problem at this point is that there are so few things that can be enjoyed that there are still more people who complain about the conditions and a difficult situation for them to face now.

But the fact is, in 2022 many people lost their jobs and prices of everything is going up while there is no increase in salary or in worsen they don't have any job to afford anything. In 2020 government provided money whereas in 2022 they act like nothing is happening and focusing on development while millions of people are living their daily life in extreme hard situation.

These are not easy times for the world economy, but this is normal, because everything moves in cycles, after a long period of growth, recession is a natural phenomenon. It just needs to be experienced, because after that favorable times, growth and development will come again. By the way, mankind had to go through much more difficult times, so as long as you are sitting well-fed and warm, then everything is not so bad.

The climate is changing this way, but you should not be surprised at this, according to scientists, it has always been like this. People have learned to adapt to new realities, and it will be the same in the future.

Why people still got surprised with these things considering that these turns out to be that inevitable or something that cant be avoided?

The thing you can do is on how you would make yourself that survive despite of these conditions.Its true that on each year which it is progressively becomes worst due into those things that we are
seeing becoming even more problematic which it would really be just common sense that you would be needing to have back up plans to make yourself sustainable at least.

What we have seen at the moment are those inevitable circumstances that are impossible to resolve at the moment, so it might be good for us to just live with them. Otherwise, we will end up putting more pressures on ourselves and living with life’s negativity which I think is not really helpful for us. Especially that we are now in a new year, so that means new beginnings and new perspectives in life.

The universe is cyclic. Therefore, everything else is, including our lives and our world. Good and bad periods come and go. Last decade was rather calm, and I believe new bad period started with Covid. Just keep in mind we're generally much better off than our ancestors, and even though it seems like world is going to hell, we still live better than any of our ancestors ever did.

True. What we are experiencing right now are just the outcome from the input we have been making even centuries ago. So we should not blame it all to the government as they are not solely responsible for all of these but us. Although inflation can still be controlled if only the government had become cautious in the start, but this time, I think it’s now becoming unstoppable. Maybe this is now the best time to reflect, and think of possible solutions that will help combat from all of these negative scenarios, if not, maybe we can just avoid or shortened their time duration.

I totally agree. It's crazy how all the governments handled the covid situation so poorly. Not only did they not get the virus under control, but they also completely messed up the economy. Trillions of dollars were lost because they thought it was a good idea to keep people locked up in their homes and not allow them to work. It's just insane that panic and unwise cautions messed up the economy. Now, we became the ones that has to pay for this bad governance.

I believe ancient times were much worse. Sanitary conditions were inexistent or precarious, common people had less rights, dignity and opportunities, laws were more severe and conflicts between neighboor regions constant.

Take middle ages as example. Battles and conspirations for power were frequent. Barons, nobles insurging against kings, burning, decapitating, hanging and butchering each other always they had an opportunity to show their rule. Religious persecutions against who they considered heretics, with no rights to fair, impartial judgement. Pandemics like The Black Death, which took from 75 to 200 million lives in Europe. Segregation against inferior classes, which didn't have opportunity to thrive in life, even if they worked hard, with few exceptions. Low life standards, total discomfort, bad eating habits, low life expectation (someone on their 40's would be an elder already).

If people from those times thought about our times, I think they would believe we live in a reality very close to Heaven...

Thank you so much senior @OP because I've also sat down to think about how everything has turned so bad ever after the covid and I think we've been swimming from one issues to another and every issue seems worst than the previous one.
In my my country, we battled with COVID and just as we were struggling with the covid, we started battling with police (SARS) brutality, where the police that was supposed to be protecting it's citizens, were the ones responsible for killings of its citizens and youth precisely, the citizens protested but to no avail rather there were more shootings and killings.
From battling with police brutality, we jumped to a massive recession and economy cramp as there was massive hike in prices of goods and also services and just as if we were getting used to that, we started battling with fuel and especially petrol price and I think I'm giving up on my country already

Gathering with family is important and also a very enjoyable thing. But for some people, they also want to take their family for a walk around tourist attractions that are not so far from where they live because this can also provide pleasure for them and their family. Moreover, this kind of thing is rarely done in a year because it is always busy with routine work that gets in the way.

That is very true, because regret is an attitude that has no meaning at all, so continuing to work continuously is the solution to avoiding bad economic problems. After all, every result of work is worth enjoying even in bad conditions, because the comfort of life is born from enjoying the results of work, not from refraining from not enjoying anything in life.

fun doesn't have to be done outside, with bad climate conditions, it makes us closer to family gathering and praying together so that in the new year we can get through our difficult times in the previous year

never regret your situation, friends, enjoy the process that is given because everything will end with our efforts to avoid this bad economy

It remains a big and interesting question to me whether we just hit a rough patch of a few years or we are only starting a dark period of humanity's existence that will mark itself with much more suffering to come and possibly with the radical change of the world, and not for the better. I'm generally an optimist, so I hope it's just a rough few years, perhaps a rough decade, which will be followed by a stronger, more progressive, more democratic world. But so far, it's not looking well, I agree. That being said, it's possible to find joy and to value life even under bad circumstances, unless they are severely bad. And learning to be more mindful of spending resources, including electricity, is just a good thing to do in general.

The world situation is indeed undergoing changes in any sector, we have just passed Covid-19, but now inflation and recession are starting to have an impact on the course of the economy, it seems that this suffering will never end, people who have a middle to lower economy will always face this condition.

In fact, in almost many countries the impact of inflation fluctuated, not only in the energy sector, even the food sector and other sectors had quite an impact. The circulation of money in circulation is really unstable and causes a number of local and export products not to be accommodated for their basic needs, so that small communities are again receiving this impact without any solutions being offered by those in authority.

Extreme weather changes are not much worse than the suffering experienced by the small and medium-sized people, due to the effects of inflation and recession which those who have obligations cannot suppress, so many problems have been caused, but there has been no solution as a way out.

While we continue to be forced to live under this problem, there are not many things we can do, on the contrary we are required not to give up with the situation, so the solution must be thought of by each individual.

I'm pretty sure it's getting worse and way worse than in previous years.

And happy new year to you too, bitcoin is the hope of changes that we can do independently, believe it or not this will prove over time.

I've noticed this before, for example, after a new year, I hope that the year will be good for us, but it never is because every year all foods and items become more expensive (have you ever noticed a year when the price of foods and other items drops? since I haven't noticed this), there are catastrophes happening in countries, and most of all, normal citizens like us have nothing to do. Since the new year, I've been telling myself that I need to add another source of income because this year is bound to be a big one, so that I can still buy our necessities. This is the only thing I can do instead of doing nothing. 

Happy new year to you too buddy, let's hope together that 2023 is not going to be as terrible as the last year. Starting the new year alone can bring a lot of memories to mind that usually would be blocked by all the alcohol people drink on New Years. I was over Christmas alone at home with covid and also thought back how terrible the last few years were in my country. Especially the double digit inflation rates we are facing now is worrying me. Food prices have been rising quite a while now, but especially energy prices made a big jump in 2022. In my country it doesn't look we will ever go back to normal energy prices again. The whole process of changing to more renewable energy sources seems to be rushed and the country is not ready for it, then on top of that closing down all the nuclear energy sources is going to make things much worse. I am hoping 2023 is not going to be as bad as expected.

Hope is like that but we also don't know what will happen in the future with the condition of panic about the Recession and some news in it obviously this will be a little more difficult even though it's clear that everyone hopes for the best for 2023 but on the other hand we can't do anything a lot is just hope and continuing to live in the current conditions better in the current conditions.