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I enjoy his work, though I occasionally find contradictions. He says the US has favorable demographics through having plenty of millennials and suggested the UK

I enjoy his work, though I occasionally find contradictions. He says the US has favorable demographics through having plenty of millennials and suggested the UK was not so lucky, but they look roughly the same to me? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom#/media/File:UK_Population_Pyramid.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingd... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#/media/File:USA_Population_Pyramid.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta... Germany and China, on the other hand, both do have a huge drop off from the baby boomer generation onward and I wonder how they'll cope with that.

StrangeDoctor 4y ago
throwawaymaths 4y ago
Not that I have a perfectly photographic memory, but I can't recall him ever presenting the UK pyramid chart in any of his presos.
ncmncm 4y ago
To me what stood out most starkly was how few black and hispanic people are found in older cohorts. It seems to imply they die much younger.
- AtlasBarfed 4y ago
  Chris rock on social security: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=190928444840463 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=190928444840463
  - ncmncm 4y ago
    That doesn't play, for me. I tried to find it on YT, no luck.
    - DanBC 4y ago
      It's from this bit of one of his shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq6Ez8oYDrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq6Ez8oYDrU
      - ncmncm 4y ago
        Thank you. Nobody can argue with Chris Rock.