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<blockquote data-quote="nek" data-source="post: 1272748" data-attributes="member: 3987">RE: Prediction for the 20s1)&nbsp;&nbsp; The China situation highlights a prediction of mine....more authoritarian major nations will rise where democracies will further decline.&nbsp; People are inherently emotional, short-sighted, selfish, and lack critical thinking, yet in democracies, these are the people that have a say in how the nation will be run and plan for the future.&nbsp; Authoritarian regimes can better plan for resource allocation, environmental needs, and social cohesion. 2)&nbsp; I think drug/alcohol/prescription med usage will sky-rocket in the west, as well as pet sales.&nbsp; GenY, Millenials, will be entering middle age like unmoored vessels that spent the last decades not really doing much.&nbsp; Working, but otherwise just kind of hanging out, not understanding that traveling to every instagram hot-spot hasn't made them more well-rounded and fulfilled as people.&nbsp; People will realize the folly of their choices and it will be too little too late.&nbsp; It's a fascinating time, the world is connected, information is all over the place, and materially/technologically life has never been easier for people.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nek, post: 1272748, member: 3987"] [b]RE: Prediction for the 20s[/b] 1) The China situation highlights a prediction of mine....more authoritarian major nations will rise where democracies will further decline. People are inherently emotional, short-sighted, selfish, and lack critical thinking, yet in democracies, these are the people that have a say in how the nation will be run and plan for the future. Authoritarian regimes can better plan for resource allocation, environmental needs, and social cohesion. 2) I think drug/alcohol/prescription med usage will sky-rocket in the west, as well as pet sales. GenY, Millenials, will be entering middle age like unmoored vessels that spent the last decades not really doing much. Working, but otherwise just kind of hanging out, not understanding that traveling to every instagram hot-spot hasn't made them more well-rounded and fulfilled as people. People will realize the folly of their choices and it will be too little too late. It's a fascinating time, the world is connected, information is all over the place, and materially/technologically life has never been easier for people. [/QUOTE]

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