/lit/ - Literature

All of the above problems can be linked to overpopulation. Just 50 years ago the world population was 3 billion. Today it is over 7 billion and rising exponentially. Literally too many people running around for any one individual's life to have significant meaning or impact. And yet expectations are higher than ever and more difficult to fulfill than ever before. The vast majority of workers live paycheck to paycheck, college graduates can't find permanent employment and are too busy paying off debt obligations and rent to buy any actual assets, everything can be outsourced, nothing is guaranteed and no one is trustworthy, access to nature and open spaces is increasingly restricted, people are simultaneously told that having children is bad and that immigrants are needed to deal with falling birthrates, etc. Frustrated expectations and ambitions fuel the depressive outlook many people have today. The old economic systems are outdated and no longer functional for the vast majority of the population, but no better alternative seems possible or is being provided.

We have long passed the mental and spiritual carrying capacity of the globe, now all that's left is to reach the physical limits.