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Originally Posted by MetaMan
how is a nation supposed to re build itself when they are too fat to do manual labor for more than 5 minutes at a time? this is not a joke. tell me how please if you have an answer.
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all valid criticisms.
and I tend to agree with your suggestion that it would take 50 years to recover from the bad choices we made in the past thirty years.
I say "would", because you are leaving out a cluster of other factors that affect the problem, resource depletion and the inevitable rise in the real cost of energy being at the top of the list. these factors make a recovery even less likely.
we gave up our chance to transform into being the top producing economy in the world, choosing instead to live off our capital and debt.
There are things we could do, but we lack the political will and we won't do them.