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Your problem is not with “boomers.” It’s with a population pyramid that has actually just fallen apart — but those effects won’t show up for another 20+ years.
by numair 5y ago
Your problem is not with “boomers.” It’s with a population pyramid that has actually just fallen apart — but those effects won’t show up for another 20+ years.
- lmm 5y agoNope. The problem is zoning laws which are a boomer invention. The population shift may actually solve the problem as there will be enough homes to go around despite it being de facto illegal to build new ones anywhere anyone wants to live.
- imtringued 5y ago>population pyramid that has actually just fallen apart True, but the effects do show up today. When people have less children, the economy also consumes less, meaning less work needs to be done leading to a scarcity of the holy "well paying full time job". Instead you get a rise in part time jobs and as wages go down you also get an increase in "meaningless" employment in the service industry. The lack of children that are consuming more than they produce has basically created a huge demand hole in the economy that the rise of "consumerism" is trying to fill. Meanwhile working age people try to save for (early) retirement and reduce consumption themselves.