I don’t know about Hunger Games, but older people’s interest in maintaining their socioeconomic position in society explains a ton of politics around the world,

I don’t know about Hunger Games, but older people’s interest in maintaining their socioeconomic position in society explains a ton of politics around the world, and the struggles young people find themselves in. There are a greater and greater proportion of people that need to be able to get labor from a smaller and smaller proportion of younger people, which basically means a need to make rents go up either via taxes or investments. The investments portion is seen as devaluation of currency. Although, that is not what the linked article is talking about.