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What will the new generations do against the economic and political power of the old?
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What will the new generations do against the economic and political power of the old?

In most western countries old people vote and young people do not. So the older people have more political power. And older people have developed careers and accumulated money, so older people have more money.

With a declining population this is going to get worse for the young people. They will have less and less political and financial power.

I just watched a video about China which is dealing with this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iUZTCjVykE) and I wonder if this is a preview of what is to come for other countries.

Young Chinese people have developed a culture of "lie down" which is do just enough work at a job to get by. Do not try to make more money. Just live simply and do as little as possible.

They are also developing a culture of rat people. Adults who live with their parents and just stay in bed all day. They just get up to eat and do nothing else. They have no desire to accomplish anything in life.

And Chinese young people are trying to move out of China to other countries that have better opportunities for young people.

So as the population declines and declines first among they young, will society change the laws and economics to support young people and encourage having and raising children?

Or will young people decide they have no power and no future and opt out of society as much as possible, or leave to go someplace they hope is better?

u/AgentElman — 4 days ago
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What will happen to the car market, dealerships, and American car makers?

American car companies have focused on pick-up trucks since the 60's when tariffs were put on foreign pick-up trucks. That lets American companies charge higher prices on pick-up trucks and make a lot more profit - they basically stopped making sedans and other small cars.

Post covid due to supply issues, American automakers were restricted on how many cars they could make - so they focused on making the most expensive will as many options as possible, driving the price of the cars way up. And consumers who felt they had no other options paid those prices.

But last year 3 million car loans were defaulted on. The prices are very high and customers are signing 8 year loans for new cars they plan on keeping for only 3 years.

A lot of youtube videos are claiming the market is collapsing - but none are saying what will actually happen. Just that the prices are too high.

So what will happen when car prices are too high? Will car makers just switch to making cheaper vehicles and the market will reset? Will the losses be too much and dealers and automakers will go out of business?

Will the wealthy people just keep buying high priced new cars and there just won't be a car market for the middle class and poor?

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u/AgentElman — 8 days ago
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The Sheep Detectives - it's Babe with a cozy British mystery

We saw the Sheep Detectives with my extended family and we were all blown away by it. I think they thought it would be cute, and they wanted to see Hugh Jackman.

The basic plot is Hugh is a shepherd who reads mystery books, and he reads them out loud to his sheep (he assumes his sheep do not understand). When Hugh is murdered, Lily, his smartest sheep, decides she is going to find his killer.

The sheep talk to each other but humans do not understand (like in Babe).

So there is the human story of the bumbling small town cop investigating and the sheep story of the sheep investigating.

But in addition to the mystery there is a lot of sheep culture and social life covered, with cute little lambs, etc. It has a lot of feelings mixed in - you'll laugh, you'll cry.

Have you seen it? What did you think?

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u/AgentElman — 11 days ago