Waiting to See What’s Ahead
There is something that changed for me this month. The things that once looked grim and doomed. Waiting to see what’s ahead.
I felt like there was nothing I could do. Eventually, the things dear to me will be gone. Interests will change. Putting in effort feels hard when you don’t know what’s ahead.
The shift has been primarily focused on technology, which has evolved through many generations. Many generations could have faced this. There has been so much improvement over the years, yet the human race has still kept moving. Endless wars, plagues, extinction of races.
I see people now quitting in expectation of a collapse. “A chatbot would do that.”
The fear is necessary. It is the only evolving force we have.
Source
Tony Casale, "Bologna," 11 years old been selling newspapers for 4 years, Hartford, Connecticut, March 1909
Successful people have had their times with this. They were resilient, not caring what was ahead. They were doing something in times when there was nothing.
At the start of the internet era, everything conventional was at risk—people refurbishing, arts as well. Is all of that wiped now?
But the people… they persisted. Don’t be me. Don’t dwell like me.
I started seeing the same hesitation at a larger scale. The same waiting was happening elsewhere.
America looks like an example of times when empires thought they were indestructible. Controlling information like no other. The thing that fascinates me is they don’t care if you know.
Jerome Powell has faced criticism and threats from the President. The President wants lower interest rates because, in his own words, “No one gets rich when interest rates are higher.”
Source Washington Journal
Investigations are also used to threaten him. The economy is in a place where inflation is imminent. The dollar is losing its power. Safe-haven currencies are booming. Gold and silver are surging.
If he decreases interest rates, jobs are affected, which are already lower than ever.
He doesn’t want to feed into the delusion that Trump can control him. He can’t decrease them.
So what does he do?
Nothing.
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