We have lived in a world of growth. Always, more growth, more growth.
Corporations get bigger, more money is printed, asset prices go up!
This, unfortunately, has been a world wide ponzi scheme. And this growth relies on the population continuing to get larger. More people to spread the burden to. More consumers.
This growth, in all the financial markets, has been due to a growing population. So, what happens when the population heads the other way?
Well, we don't really know, because we haven't really lived through anything like it. Not since the Black Plague. (You could say the American unCivil War, or any of the notso"great" wars, but those didn't impact the women that much, and, in fact, created the largest generation ever, the boomers)
It is easy to make line go up when population is rising.
When you don't have to create a whole new market, when you don't have to steal it from a competitor, when all you have to do is wait, and your market will grow (from births) things are easy.
More "investors", i mean marks, in the stock market, the more the stock market goes up.
If you want house prices to go up, you need more people who need more houses. It is terrifying to the housing market when the population goes down (or too many houses are built.) After the Black Plague, people moved into which ever house they thought they could keep (keep from others taking it). There were empty houses everywhere.
You could bank on every market going up. More people means more stuff to sell.
We really haven't been in a situation where the population is going down, until now.
The population is cratering.
And, now, line will go down.
The boomers own 25% of the houses, and these will be dumped on the market soon.
The boomers own most of the stocks and bonds (owned by retail investors), and these will be dumped on the market soon.
There will be so much excess supply and so little demand, that most markets will tank.
And the consumer market is collapsing. Last years Christmas numbers were truly pitiful. And this year's numbers will be worse. Not as much stuff will be needed in the future. (and there are economic reasons too, caused by line go down)
We all know about ghost towns, but not really. And we do not think of that phrase applying to a city. Although Detroit and parts of Chicago are almost just like it. Many large cities are going to become ghost towns.
Malls are closing, or barely staying open with a few occupied stores. Soon we will see giant box stores closing. Leaving a huge empty, waste of space.
All of this is a byproduct of a decreasing population size. (No matter what it is blamed on now)
The WEF wants 9/10ths of the population dead
So, we have a financial system, a welfare system, a commercial system, everything based on line go up. And, instead of changing, moving with the times, these system are trying to make line go up again. Bringing in migrants and other hacks that will fail.
The WEF has other plans. To let the financial system run off a cliff, and then let tons of people die, while they buy up everything that is left.
You won't own anything, and you will be happy. (and you better be happy, or the computer will use you for reactor shielding) The WEF will own everything, and you will be relegated to 15 minute open air prisons.
Of course the WEF fails, mostly how Stalin and Mao failed. The WEF has two black thumbs, and can't grow food to save their lives. They think they can buy everything, however food, that is not grown, cannot be bought, not even with all the gold in the world.
Further, they fail because of the Great Migration. Where people move to be with their "family" (tribe). So, they will move to locations that have geographical beneficial structures (like hot springs, protective mountains) and technology will make living out in the middle of nowhere easy peasy.
Those mother WEFers, who rely on line-go-up, are destroying their own powerbase. They think they can destroy it all and then rebuild. (cause they got all the gold) But, they will lose everything, and have no ability to create anything new.
Things will never be the same again. After we recover from this crash, people will learn how to live in a sustaining method. Not, line-go-up or line-go-down.
One of the reasons that distributed manufacturing destroys centralized manufacturing is that as people learn about sustainability, they will want very durable, long lasting, easily fixable goods. And then, there really is no more market. After everyone has a toaster that will last forever, all you have left is the trickle of people who need replacement parts.
There are no more growing markets. A company cannot be made on any one item. They would have to create a new product, continuously. And i don't mean like a new flavor of Coca-Cola, i mean like a new gizmo everyone will want. And, it has to be not printable by a 3D printer. So, if these companies do exist in the future, they will be short lived, and thus, created just to "make one for everyone" and then shut down to replacement parts level.
During this time of line-go-down, so much of what we used to break our backs for, will become free, or worthless.
If we redistribute the dollars from the boomers, to those people remaining, everyone will be a millionaire, but there will be two empty houses for everyone looking for one. So, what do you use the million dollars on?
That is what the future we are heading towards is like. Well, at least the part before we begin to work out sustainability.