Looking at the current trajectory of global events, where do you think the world will be five years from now?

 

• Will we see more war or less?

• More poverty or greater prosperity?

• Will environmental challenges worsen, or will we make progress in fixing them?

• Will human rights and equality improve, or will they decline?

• Will people be healthier due to better awareness of health and technology, or will poor diet and lifestyle choices continue to take a toll?

• Will AI become a true game-changer, or will it simply evolve into a more advanced and user-friendly search tool?

• And for Gen Z, will they find themselves in a better world or a more challenging one?

 

I try to stay positive in my outlook, even if the future for the world doesn’t seem so bright. Things may look bleak, but they always can change. At least the sun will still rise every morning, until the day it doesn’t, and by then, we’ll all be gone.

 

What are your thoughts?

4 minutes ago, Hokeus said:

• More poverty or greater prosperity?

 

Maybe less poverty, maybe homelessness will be solved.

But also maybe middle class will decline? 

Maybe price of goods and services will decline due to AI?

The future financial picture is hard to predict what it will look like. 

 

 

16 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

Maybe less poverty, maybe homelessness will be solved.

But also maybe middle class will decline? 

Maybe price of goods and services will decline due to AI?

The future financial picture is hard to predict what it will look like. 

 

 

 

Humanity already has the means and resources to eliminate poverty, starvation, and homelessness on a global scale. However, it requires the resolve to do so, and at this point, that determination seems absent, as inequality continues to grow. I wish it weren't the case. 

37 minutes ago, Hokeus said:

I try to stay positive in my outlook, even if the future for the world doesn’t seem so bright.

 

Well that's all nice and lovely but it's time for you to wake up!

 

The world is full of the dumbest hominids to ever walk the earth and it's only going to get much worse.
 

Watch the movie named 'Idiocracy' - it's prophetical.

Just now, ukrules said:

 

Well that's all nice and lovely but it's time for you to wake up!

 

The world is full of the dumbest hominids to ever walk the earth and it's only going to get much worse.
 

Watch the movie named 'Idiocracy' - it's prophetical.

 

Welcome to Costco...I love you. 

This is where I'll be in 5 years ..............

 

World same, people more crazy

I trust nature but not people. Look at how stupid the average person is. 

 

George Carlin summed up humans well.

I think that, with recent developments, you can't be pessimistic enough. 

18 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

This is where I'll be in 5 years ..............

 

Nice positive vibes for the morning

If I'm still above ground, nothing will be different.  And all the items in OP, good for headlines, but nothing will change, and none will affect me.

20 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

This is where I'll be in 5 years ..............

 

 

Me too !

58 minutes ago, Hokeus said:

 

Humanity already has the means and resources to eliminate poverty, starvation, and homelessness on a global scale. However, it requires the resolve to do so, and at this point, that determination seems absent, as inequality continues to grow. I wish it weren't the case. 

 

This speaker makes a valid point that consuming daily news will make one have a bleak outlook on the world and it's not an accurate reflection of reality. 

 

And then discusses advances in technologies that will enhance our lives.

 

 

Not every thread is about Trump.

@OneMoreFarang

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

This is where I'll be in 5 years ..............

 

Unfortunately I think I’ll be there even sooner …you cannot stop old age, but lifestyle can slow it down……I’m trying to…lol

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

This is where I'll be in 5 years ..............

 

Did you buy the grave plot already?  

I always come back to the following words spoken by Michael Caine in the opening monologue of the film "The Quiet American".
 

Of course they were written for the purposes of a fictional story, and on a specific topic, but I look at them through the eyes of wishing the world as a whole could just be half as romantic and simple:

 

I can't say what made me fall in love with Vietnam. That a woman's voice can drug you? That everything is so intense - the color, the taste, even the rain? Nothing like the filthy rain in London.

 

They say whatever you're looking for you will find here.

 

They say you come to Vietnam and you understand a lot in a few minutes. But the rest has got to be lived. 

 

The smell, that's the first thing that hits you - promising everything in exchange for your soul.

 

And the heat. Your shirt is straight away a rag. You can hardly remember your name, or what you came to escape from.

 

But at night, there's a breeze. The river is beautiful. You could be forgiven for thinking there was no war, that the gunshots were fireworks, that only pleasure matters.

 

A pipe of opium, or the touch of a girl who might tell you she loves you.

 

And then something happens as you knew it would, and nothing can ever be the same again.

 

 

Odds are ill still be here in 30 years. Help me please.

J D vance will be president and the liberal, pink haired nose ringed women will still be crying

According to life expectancy statistics, ashes fertilizing my GF's garden.

2 hours ago, Hokeus said:

3 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

Maybe less poverty, maybe homelessness will be solved.

But also maybe middle class will decline? 

Maybe price of goods and services will decline due to AI?

The future financial picture is hard to predict what it will look like. 

 

 

 

Humanity already has the means and resources to eliminate poverty, starvation, and homelessness on a global scale. However, it requires the resolve to do so, and at this point, that determination seems absent, as inequality continues to grow. I wish it weren't the case.

 

You cannot solve homelessness.  Most homeless are mentally ill and/or addicted to drugs.  They want to be homeless or are unable to function in a home.

 

The only real solution would be to have mental institutions again.  The problem is "care in the community" is what we have now.

1 hour ago, proton said:

J D vance will be president and the liberal, pink haired nose ringed women will still be crying

And you will be licking up ants from the floor for protein, after your SS payments get cut because you are not spending them in the Hew Hess Hay.

4 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

And you will be licking up ants from the floor for protein, after your SS payments get cut because you are not spending them in the Hew Hess Hay.

Pathetic fear mongering. You lot will keep saying medicare and SS are in trouble until its obvious you cant get away with the lie anymore

3 minutes ago, hotsun said:

Pathetic fear mongering. You lot will keep saying medicare and SS are in trouble until its obvious you cant get away with the lie anymore

It's already happening, obvious to anyone with more than two brain cells.

 

You think DOGE is about saving money? It's about re-directing it.

12 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

It's already happening, obvious to anyone with more than two brain cells.

 

You think DOGE is about saving money? It's about re-directing it.

Exactly .. redirect from wasteful corruption, to beneficial programs, like SS & MC.

 

Gov't gets plenty of tax income, just need to stop wasting it.  20% goes to defense budget ... defense from who ?

 

China's not invading, Russia can't, and the other 200+ countries are allies or don't have a military.

 

USA doesn't need a defense budget, and needs to stop supplying corporate security worldwide for free.

16 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Exactly .. redirect from wasteful corruption, to beneficial programs, like SS & MC.

 

Gov't gets plenty of tax income, just need to stop wasting it.  20% goes to defense budget ... defense from who ?

 

China's not invading, Russia can't, and the other 200+ countries are allies or don't have a military.

 

USA doesn't need a defense budget, and needs to stop supplying corporate security worldwide for free.

How long do you think the US will have allies if it's going to slap tariffs on everyone? Canada is already forging trade ties with China and the EU.

 

If you think Trump and Musk will be putting the money they save into SS and MC, you are delusional. Oligarchs line their own pockets.

In five years the US will be better, thailand will probably be worse

4 hours ago, Hokeus said:

What are your thoughts?

 

5 Years = 2030 = the date of "The Great Reset" being planned by The World Economic Forum (WEF).

A lot of people will claim they are dictators and it's a conspiracy ... 

But have a look at their vision of life in 2030. 

Unemployment issue will be solved?

And environmental degradation issue will be solved?

Maybe fewer wealthy people, but people in general will have more contented lives?

 

https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/welcome-to-2030-i-own-nothing-have-no-privacy-and-life-has-never-been-better-ee2eed62f710

27 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

How long do you think the US will have allies if it's going to slap tariffs on everyone? Canada is already forging trade ties with China and the EU.

 

If you think Trump and Musk will be putting the money they save into SS and MC, you are delusional. Oligarchs line their own pockets.

That's just it, the USA doesn't need allies 

 

Not that the USA has any.  Just a bunch of money suckin' parasites.

 

Can feed, energize & defend itself.  

There will be more and more highrises all around Pattaya under construction.  There will be a lot more Chinese living in Thailand along with Indians, Russians, and Pattaya will continue to grow.  There is still a lot of undeveloped beachfront or beach near land that is still a bargain compared to most other beach front properties around the world.  Jomtien high rises still have miles and miles of beach land to turn into condos and people from all over the world will be drawn to a cheaper more simple lifestyle where they can get away from all the political dramas.

 

The bars will continue to get pushed back away from beach front inland.  Poor Thais will continue to be drawn into the Pattaya area to try and make $$ from the increasing numbers of farangs with money to spend.

 

The Thai people will still be some of the nicest people on earth that will put up with all sorts of idiots who come here and show them very little respect.