You should probably specify which country you're referring to.
Barely makes a difference.
At least here in Canada, I think the economic split between homeowners and renters is going to become massively painful. The government needs to step in and take dramatic action to fix this problem, but doing so could theoretically tank the price of housing, and with so many people having bought at super-high prices, a significance portion of the population (also, the majority of whom have lots of wealth) might get royally fucked. The government might have to make a decision about which portion of the population to protect, and which to sacrifice.
It's true. There's a real class and generational conflict going on in Canada.
Between the baby boomers who hold the majority of the wealth by sitting on expensive housing property, a handful of actual rich people who are the only ones able to purchase housing property, and the rest of us who can barely afford either rent or property, there is a lot of tension going on.
I mean there are now two generations who aren't able to make ends meet even with high education and what are supposed to be well paying jobs. The millennials are reaching 40 years old now and are still trying to save for a down payment on a god damn home. While gen Z is being jerked around by receiving shit pay because they're young adults who supposedly "lack experience".
The problem is the government has been protecting/supporting one group for a long time to the point that everything is now "too big to fail". Government continue to create investment materials that can't fail -- and anything that can't fail will create a bubble and destroy everything else. That investment in Canada was housing. Now it's like over half our GDP is housing investment. And why invest in anything else? Nothing else is as risk free.
I feel like the collapse is never going to come.
When people can't afford to live, the collapse is already here, it's just covered up by a band-aid of bread and circuses.
We're witnessing the end of an era. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better, I think. Here in Canada especially.
What economic future?
We're already in neo-feudalism with no signs of improvement in our lifetimes. Capitalism will continue until it has killed the planet, then the rich will flee to the stars and start it all over again.
1-2 years, alright. 3-5 years, nervous. 6-10 years, quite pessimistic. The coming decades, really not great...
Not great. I feel like I need to work hard to make sure I'm in the top 10-1% otherwise my life will be struggle with no end.
Lol. Nope. We're fkd. Too many people.
The only success we'll have is after a huge mess and a less populated earth, and people get back to their roots.
Unless we really make tech work for us. But we'd need to mine the asteroid belt or smth. The current system and climate is not sustainable.
People want too much. Stuff they don't need. We need to break that mindset for longevity as a species. IMO
-an american
Economically… fine, I guess. The ultra rich hoard wealth like dragons and the rest of us fight over the scraps but that isn’t too different to how it’s always been.
It’s everything else that I’m fucking terrified about.
This pyramid scheme of an economy seems to have run out of steam.
I work in Agtech, the future looks rosy
I'm curious... Is agtech doing well at the moment?
Covid and brexit have been an amazing catalyst for climate mitigating tech.
I work in a few sectors
Vertical farming, which is having its version of a crypto winter. A good cull thins the crowd though, makes winners easier to spot. Aeroponics with no expensive robots looks like the winner. Genetic engineering in vertical farms will probably replace all fermented pharma stuff.
And regenerative arable farming, some really cool stuff happening with low skill robots and soil improvement.
Brutal. I think we've passed the apogee of shared human wealth. We're still going to live better than most humans who have ever lived but relative to our parents? Blech.
Throw in a few looming civilization size issues (political polarization/splintering of "reality", climate change, AI/Automation and increasing inequality) and we've got some... Interesting times ahead.
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