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I'm sure it was fewer in total number, we only had 211 million people in the US in 1973. As far as relative to the population, I'm not sure. Here's the populati

I'm sure it was fewer in total number, we only had 211 million people in the US in 1973. As far as relative to the population, I'm not sure. Here's the population tree for 1973. The bulge at the bottom is probably responsible for peak crime in 1991 if you assume most violent crime is from people ~19-40. https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/1973/ https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/1...

b112 3y ago
It doesn't seem like much, but if you just move forward through the years, you can see a bulge moving up the graph. It's quite serious. Medicare, in the US, is seen as "being in a crisis", as the number of taxpayers, relative to the number of "older people who tend to need lots of health care", will shift. Fewer taxpayers, more using that tax. Note, that it would seem exceptionally unfair, IMO, for people that paid all their lives into the tax base, to suddenly be seen as "horrible" for now using medicare. This trend of course will only continue. Going forward, as our populations shrink world wide: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=US https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location... We'll forever see "lots of older people" being taken care of by "fewer younger people". It used to be there were more young than old. Now the reverse is true, due to improved health care, and now, due to lowered birth rate. There was no 'great resignation'. Instead, what happened during COVID is the start of the boomers retiring. Retired people have worked their entire lives, and still like to enjoy lunches, produce, and yet now there are more of them, than people making things. Well anyhow. This may seem unrelated, but there's a lot of talk at the start of this talk, about population shifts, and collapse, and how it will affect things moving forward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0CQsifJrMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0CQsifJrMc Short version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9fm6FErHkQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9fm6FErHkQ

b112 3y ago

It doesn't seem like much, but if you just move forward through the years, you can see a bulge moving up the graph. It's quite serious. Medicare, in the US, is seen as "being in a crisis", as the number of taxpayers, relative to the number of "older people who tend to need lots of health care", will shift. Fewer taxpayers, more using that tax. Note, that it would seem exceptionally unfair, IMO, for people that paid all their lives into the tax base, to suddenly be seen as "horrible" for now using medicare. This trend of course will only continue. Going forward, as our populations shrink world wide: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=US https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location... We'll forever see "lots of older people" being taken care of by "fewer younger people". It used to be there were more young than old. Now the reverse is true, due to improved health care, and now, due to lowered birth rate. There was no 'great resignation'. Instead, what happened during COVID is the start of the boomers retiring. Retired people have worked their entire lives, and still like to enjoy lunches, produce, and yet now there are more of them, than people making things. Well anyhow. This may seem unrelated, but there's a lot of talk at the start of this talk, about population shifts, and collapse, and how it will affect things moving forward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0CQsifJrMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0CQsifJrMc Short version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9fm6FErHkQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9fm6FErHkQ