On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 07:30:06 UTC+1, RichA wrote:
A report was done recently about changes in Western attitudes. 30 years ago, an American would be thrilled to pack up, move 1/2 way across country to get a better job, or A job. Today, there is vast resistance to this. Fear. Must be due to the fact male testosterone levels have dropped by about 1/2 on average in the same time period.

Grow up. We're a rat colony. A rat colony if fed will vastly expand, then there is a huge die-off. No reason humans won't suffer the same fate.

Perhaps the human race is being subjected to stress tests formerly reserved for rats? Long term conditioning to continuous economic stresses as the incomes of middle and lower classes stagnate or fall in real terms? The inability to escape from relative poverty leads to depression and pharmaceutic dependence. With the export of countless manual job to China many lost pride in their skills and abilities.

Replacement, menial, service sector jobs offer no pride in a day's work well done. Mechanization and robotization have deskilled many demanding, manual tasks. There is no finished pile of widgets to count. Merely the drudgery of endless repetition with no end in sight until retirement or forced redundancy.

It would seem that the latest means of keeping a lid on global public anger is to supply plenty of [just affordable] toys and entertainments to satiate passive monkeys in a sensory deprivation cage. The VR Matrix constantly beckons and is only ever a sugar-coated pill away. So re_lax and be h_a_p_p_y. You've never had it so good! ;-)