The gap is going to get even more intense. This is the youngest the US will ever be in our lifetimes, and most people approach politics pretty selfishly. Just the other day, a retired relative was grousing, "Why do I have to pay for the schools? My kids are out."
The gap is going to get even more intense. This is the youngest the US will ever be in our lifetimes, and most people approach politics pretty selfishly. Just the other day, a retired relative was grousing, "Why do I have to pay for the schools? My kids are out."
I'm generally an optimist, but I think is the sort of self-reinforcing problem that is only going to get worse. An aging population means less public support for pro-children policy, which results in incrementally fewer children...
...This is the sort of "Why Nations Fail" vicious cycle that only gets resolved with some massive, and very painful, social reset, e.g. a war, economic collapse, or a revolution that shocks people and upturns modes of living.
@mnolangray You are forgetting one thing. Before anything else on the planet, we GRANDPARENTS. We couldn’t be more pro child.
@mnolangray In the US case, budget deficits and the reliance on muni bond are going to make thus generational financial problem *much worse*.
@mnolangray You see it very clearly in Poland tbh.