Outstanding USA Issues
From Open Source Ecology
Good Points
- High standard of living
- Information technology advancements
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- High level of civic society has been reached, with certain challenges to democracy surfacing in 2021
Issues
- Agency problem - in Corporate/IPO structure
- Centralized industry with limited wealth distribution
- Dead end jobs - preventing individuals from lifelong learning
- Widening gap between information workers and real work, which breeds resentment. Dead end jobs.
- 2 ton/acre erosion
- Deforestation [1]. About 0.6% forest cover loss in 2020 alone. Holy shit.
- Prison industry complex
- Military industrial complex and its subtle forms such as STEM = military industrial complex
- Privatization of public institutions' R&D
- Low self esteem - keeping up with the joneses, materialism
