The UN food price index is a great predictor of global instability. The last time it spiked we had the Arab spring. Looks like more trouble in the Middle East this time too.
Just look at the Russia Ukraine war as an example of this. Total combat death is somewhere between 500k and 1m depending on sources. Probably the nastiest modern war since Korea and still the media portrays it as being sterile and almost clean. The horrors are mostly suppressed and forgotten. The almost no discussion of what daily life is like in the war zone or civilians nearby.
Racism is a big part of it. Every race thinks they are superior and somehow other people are stupid, orks, apes, subhumans etc.
When wars break out though it generally turns out that people are equally capable of killing each other and logistics is what makes or breaks any prolonged conflict. Technology helps as a force multiplier but it won’t save you if the logistics break down and you run low on ammo or manpower.
The modern system favors executives as opposed to owners. The executive class has figured out how to extract a significant chuck from to owners share for their own coffers.
Urban density has increased greatly in select areas but building laws are such that building new housing is both difficult and expensive. Seems unlikely to change in western countries
Wars reset all debts and China has all the capacity to sustain a massive war economy equal to USA during WW2. I think people underestimate what they could do if provoked or desperate
You forgot all the pending African crisis. Probably a few more in North Africa as well. Food costs have hit the threshold where global instability in poor regions is high.
The concept of a voting shareholder is a myth. Most shares are owned/managed by funds so they are the true voters. They just vote to make sure the that the boat isn’t rocked too much.
I think that would be enough to get me to migrate. I can still play windows games on GeForce now so it’s a better deal. I’d probably get a M4 or M5 MacBook.
I guess that’s better than relying on official government sources without verifying and presenting it as fact. Think New York Times, and the Iraq wmd bullshit. Or basically anything that quotes official Ukrainian government sources as fact instead of putting strong caveats that the information is released in a controlled manner as of the war effort and may not reflect actual facts.
https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/