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>>21704520

This one shows how post WW2 USA wealth was founded on cheap oil, and once that ran out in the 70s things started going downhill. The economy picked back up in the 80s once they secured access to more cheap oil, but it's only a matter of time.

Capitalism requires constant growth, which requires increasing energy consumption, fueling infrastructure built in the last 100 years on the assumption that we would have infinite cheap fuel. To make it worse, continued use of this fuel will fuck up the atmosphere to the point where we're thrown back to Paleocene temperatures.

TLDR: Standard economics is Steven Pinker tier bluepilled horseshit claiming that capitalism good end poverty but anyone with half a brain can see that none of this shit is sustainable in the next 100 years.