I remember a movie where Antony Hopkins held the protagonistic role. He used to live among the Gorillas and eventually he adapted to his role ending up in being able to communicate with the Gorillas and call the ordinary humans with the name "takers". Indeed this is our society. Wherever you look you will see the same pattern: "let's look up until where our toes end, but not straight ahead in the future where our step we took leads us". The companies with triangle transactions or "subsidiary" foreign companies try to increase artificially the cost of the products, Airbnb is leading the west civilization to death and the pattern is always the same. Maximize profit. Maybe agent Smith from the Mattrix said the most wise line of history: "What good is a phone call if you are a unable to talk?". Your decision to maximize your income is paid always by society which ends up in lesser babies being born which leads governments to require more migration and eventually local populations are replaced with people from 3d world countries that had lesser opportunities to be educated and thus are less paid. This means that, you dumba*s, your income maximizing now will lead mathematically to income collapse in the future. The same pattern is followed by big tech companies of AI. What is the solution? Eliminate all the obstacles that prohibit couples from having babies in the west. Secondly invest in 3rd world countries so you can increase the GDP there so local people there can be highly educated also. Our planet's "health" is pointing us to that we cannot afford loosing a single mind. If we do all these then this will lead to planet salvation and constantly income growing or else "What good is a phone call if you are a unable to talk?"
Proof that cleverness exists worldwide and a little boost could save the planet (no shoes but full of mind) :