Geopolitics
The Hollowing Out of the West: Doom Spending as the Funeral Pyre of a Failed Social Contract
A generation, particularly Millennials and Gen Z, is abandoning long-term savings in favor of 'doom spending' due to the now-unattainable promise of the traditional capitalist social contract. This heartbreaking crisis of 'financial nihilism' is not a moral failing of youth but a damning indictment of a rigged, predatory system engineered by Western elites that dispossesses the Global North's own young to sustain its decadence.
