How is your part of the world doing (both current and future prospects) compared to how it was 30/40 years ago? Please say where you are in the world.
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The Netherlands.
Honestly, things could be way worse, but could also definitely be better. After many many years of rule under cabinets led by the neoliberal VVD party, earlier this year the cabinet fell. Mark Rutte, leader of the VVD and prime minister for forever, also announced that he was stepping down. Under his party, many scandals erupted and the living standards for many normal people got worse.
And thus it is time for change, but it’s not exactly certain what that change will be. The last polls I saw had the VVD (with a new candidate and seemingly a different course), PvDA/GL (combined list of labour and green party), and a new party called “New Social Contract” (NSC) going pretty even for the lead. But many other parties are also in the mix.
Time will tell of this goes the right or the wrong way, but it’s surely an exciting time for politics. Hopefully income inequality will decrease, people will be happier again, etc.
Overall I’m slightly hopeful about the future. Despite all the problems, it’s still a great country to be in, and I don’t think that that’ll change too much in the grand scheme.