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20 points mathverse | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.435s | source

EU is in a perpetual state of decline and it seems there are no solutions in sight that would change its path in the next decade.

Everything seems so stagnant and the costs of living are rising while the salaries do not increase whatsoever.

What's worse is that due to its economic decline politicians and leaders try to persuade the populace that a lot of things that we enjoy and contribute to our quality of life are now considered luxury or outright sinful. The same kind of rhetoric that is used to sin tax tobacco, alcohol, gambling is now used on things like:

- car ownership - Air Conditioning - Travel - meat and dairy

1. sk11001 ◴[] No.42195917[source]
Good luck finding a country that doesn’t seem in decline, or improving from horrible to slightly less horrible but still worse than the EU.
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2. jorisboris ◴[] No.42196311[source]
It’s also mindset, even if a country is a 3rd world country, if there is growth and a sense of progress, the population will be in a much more optimistic state.

It’s not the current situation which matters, it’s how people look at the future