Every major agricultural product has failed. Animal products aren’t well sold either. American wool was an entire industry. Tobacco we know why. Alfalfa is too expensive and killing feed. Crop after crop has gone away. We have corn and soy left which we have industrialized. They make extremely low quality sugars and oils. The lowest quality of those products tbh. They’re excellent for nutrition in third world countries. Not so much for developed ones and we can all look outside at our neighbors to prove that. They’re huge. Obese. Horrible health markers.
The cars are overpriced and not a good product either. The manufacturers had their lunch ate in the 1980s and now they look for ridiculous margins by selling the most oversized and inefficient vehicles possible to keep themselves alive. The government is the only thing stopping their full collapse, but the consumer is still demanding small electric cars from a different country. The government can’t control consumer choice.
The great wave of cannabis got zero people raised up from low wages even though it was selling like crazy.
Software engineering and hardware manufacturing are long gone and we don’t need proof on that.
Music simply isn’t sold on a mass scale anymore unless it’s generated by a hive and sung or performed by a person who is only a prop. Absolutely zero record stores around.
Furniture? Non existent.
Clothing? Only made for Hollywood and the rest from Bangladesh or Vietnam. Haven’t seen a tailor shop in a few decades.
Toys? We don’t have kids that “play” anymore so toys and toy stores are long gone. Even online.
Everything my eyes point to was made better somewhere else. I think it’s time to admit that the system won’t get us ahead. It’s not doing anything for anybody. Give it whatever name you want but its our system and it doesn’t work.
There’s no question here, wrong community.
I think your post comes across a bit jaded, and you make a bunch of objectively untrue statements. Gotta have some basis in reality if you’re going to toss around terms like “absolutely zero”
I’m wondering if you are perhaps limiting yourself to whatever you can perceive where you live and what you allow yourself to be exposed to.
Ultimately, the world changes and clinging to nostalgic “good old days” isn’t healthy.
California produces 80% of the world’s almonds and substantial amounts of the world’s grapes, strawberries, and walnuts. Oregon’s strawberries are highly renowned, but the state also produces more than half of the world’s grass seed and a substantial portion of the world’s hazelnuts.
Cannabis is an entire industry and job market. There are many who have profited massively from developing it, people do earn a living as budtenders.
I’ve been to several medium and small cities that have multiple record stores, multiple tailors, multiple toy stores, one-of-a-kind furniture builders. These things exist, they’re just not as ubiquitous as they once were.
Kids absolutely do play, which is something that anyone who knows more than a few can tell you. Just because it’s more technology focused than it was doesn’t mean that tech has outright replaced play.
I think it’s time you broaden your horizons. Look further and deeper.
I agree that the system is broken, but I don’t think that any of your points are the reason.
I also resent the concept of “getting us ahead”. I see treating everything as a race / competition as a limiting humanity, we can all be elevated through cooperation.