• Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I don’t understand this take. Comments like this suggest collapse happens overnight. Which means if china didn’t catastrophically collapse in the last 24 hours it means it isn’t happening at all or never.

    The reality is collapse happens very slowly. There is no question that the health of the economy both in china and the rest of the world is steadily getting worse year by year.

    Collapse isn’t going to happen. It’s already happening. It’s just a steady and slow march to the bottom.

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      8 months ago

      There was another comment claiming that collapse happens drastically once it starts. So what is it then

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        8 months ago

        Collapse doesn’t happen drastically. It’s a slow boil. You’re just not paying attention. It’s slow enough that if you don’t pay attention to current events and the state of the economy it’s easy to miss and assume everything is OK.

        Things are worse now than they were in 2008. It’s only getting worse. It’s going to become much much worse before it ever gets better.