Ok 'Ratard' 
You're a 20 something kid that's still pissed at the world for whatever reason and live in a constant state of anger. You'll mellow with age when you figure out that the only ones that gives a shit is YOU.
Birthrates plummeting? Oh hardly dear, the fuck is the world's population increasing then?
Stress levels high? Proof? Link? Or do you mean yours?
Cost of living? Gimme a fucking break. Here in London and all other major world cities that might be true, but go outside the major centres and properties and rent is stupidly low.
The health problems are due to a shitty diet, laziness to prepare healthy foods and lack of nutritional education.
Job markets has always been unstable. Do you think that's a new thing . The last major company that put people before profits was IBM and that was weeks from going bust if you read Lou Gerstner's autobiography. In all fairness, I've changed my thinking on this a bit. Everyone has a right to a job, but not at all costs. You have to bring something to the table too.
Dude were not talking about africa or shitty third world countries were talking about the first world.
I laugh at the bitter kid comment, as your obviously to narcissistic in your rhetoric.
I fucking studied industrial engineering before having a nervous breakdown. And I fucking get this shit fucking well and I understand the fucking history of it pretty god dam well too.
IndustrialEng if you don't know is all about increasing productivity to for the goods that are produced.
I understand all to well that as productivity climbs so does the supposed access to goods.
However I also know pretty dam well how much stress a person can take. Because were the folk that make everyone elses life a living hell. We literally push people until they start jumping out of buildings. Which is the reason those folk making your iphones have suicide nets outside the building that they work from.
We getting more capable of making gadgets and gizmos, but the cost of food and shetler has never been higher(the two resources that matter), and we have plumetting birth rates amongst white folk because of this.
It's bullshit once you understand the economic as basic resources allocation.
The market is pushing us to use resources we don't need in name of pushing the economy forward.
However it's not helping the average person in any way, because people don't need more shit, they need security in housing, and access to water and food.
Were ignoring the fragility of the human body, and introducing night shifts, continuous working hours. Irregular employment patterns. Increasing intellectual stress etc etc.
If your in my prospective you understand quite well how bullshit of a term hard work is.
Most people these days are increasingly getting forced to work hard and harder than ever before. And yet factually I can tell you wages and the resources being used are not going up.
