The Paradox of Modernity

In early 2022, Canada’s housing crisis peaked, with both home prices and rents reaching record highs. This made owning or renting a place to live increasingly unaffordable, turning the basic need for shelter into a growing financial burden. Despite being recognized as a developed nation with a high Human Development Index, over 30% of Canada’s population lacks adequate housing.

America, the world’s superpower, where students must take on debt just to access education, only to spend years after graduation repaying it, often prioritizing loan payments over owning a home, starting a family, or building savings. It’s a cycle that fuels stress, anxiety, and depression for millions. A modern superpower where the average citizen faces unaffordable healthcare, lives under the shadow of gun violence, and watches homelessness rise, all in a nation that leads the world in influence, but struggles to secure the well-being of its own people.

Europe, while not as dire as North America, still has its own challenges. London, Paris, and Berlin with sky-high rents, trap entire generations in a perpetual cycle of renting rather than owning homes. Strikes and widespread uncertainty are prevalent, fueled by economic instability and political tensions, leaving many feeling uncertain about their future.

All this in an era where everyone claims to be endlessly busy ,only for the fruits of their labor to be taken away by the brutalities of modern life: crushing taxes, soaring rents, and rising living costs. A cycle where work never ends, yet the peace, freedom, and rest it should bring remain out of reach. The standard of living going up but only for the few who benefit from others' efforts, while the ones actually working see their own lives getting harder.

The wealth of a few has reached new heights with claims of breakthroughs in technology and progress like never before yet for the ordinary person life remains hard, if not harder. While the world celebrates advancement, many still struggle just to pay bills.

So much advancement, yet very deep moral decline. Innocent people that includes children, being bombed, people made starved, while the world watches, powerless to stop it, shows how much developed we are as human. Actually those top tech giants are somehow also part of this brutality, raising a haunting question about the future of the world.

it's right time we think about the true essence of advancement, shape a world where we don't just build tall buildings and cool robots but a progress that brings improvement in the living, that brings peace, fulfill basic needs , upholds justice and speaks the language of love. Modernity is fine but only where equality exists for all.