| I'm often
asked:
 So, with your doom-and-gloom mind, what do you think
will happen?
Here's roughly my vision of what the American society will look like by
2033 (in 25 years). |
August 8, 2008General
- substance & reality: knowledge & skills will actually
determine success; not connections, capital, deceptions and various
gimmicks & schemes
- back to basics: no more excesses &
waste
Societal Structure
- downtowns across the US will be revitalized
- agriculture: plant locally, eat locally, work locally, play locally
- industries: modeled after Germany's post-war recovery
- military:
- compulsory military service for men
- total active conscript to be merely 5% of present enlistment
- total military budget to be less than 2% of current GDP share
Economy
- OECD cartel and its smoke and mirror system long gone
- World Bank and IMF naturally became obsolete
- sophisticated near-cash barter system will be widespread
- Americans will be doing out-sourced jobs for Germany and major Asian countries, but in
a more restrained less exploitive scale
- Highly educated Americans will avail themselves to work as au pairs
in Germany, Brazil and Russia, and to a far less extend, to India and China as
well
- Once the unfair advantage of monetarism cease to be possible, virtually all remaining perception of the purported inherent
"efficiency" in a
so-called purely capitalistic system vanished by 2014,
reversing to universal recognition of its inherent systemic inefficiency
Lifestyle
- pointless excessiveness and waste will vanish, as enforced by reality
- volunteerism and community spirits revived to 1960s era level
- 75% of current white collar work force will vanish
- 75% of the remaining white collar work force will telecommute
- those who physically commute will live very close to their workplaces
- average dwelling reduced to 40% present size, cross-generational
sharing common
- public ground transportation utilization increase by 15 folds
- rail system initially contracted to ICE/TGV makers and promptly
stalled, due to payment default and mass protests, thus began domestic
development
- domestic/international air travel dropped to 5%/25% of present level
- Joined global rail network (all continents except
Australia)
- sexual harassment/abuse incidents organically reduced
- culinary skills emerge to prominence, as food becomes the "in"
national passion
- true substantive gender equality emerges for the first time in
history by 2020
- a new religion will be invented and adopted, which incorporates
physical exercise
Attitudes/Perceptions
- everyone will finally face reality and start learning some basic facts,
for survival sake
- foreign languages
- the average person speaks 2 to 4 languages
- German, French and Mandarin Chinese will rise in prominence
- pollution relative to China: drastically drop
- from the present 5x per capita/22x per capita-consumption
- to 1.5x/2.5x respectively
- Foreign aid as percentage of "federal" (or then
equivalence) budget paradoxically rise
- from current shameful 1% nominal/0.1% actual, to more than double that
- even as GDP per-capita (PPP) ranking slides drastically downward
- public perception of such ratio continues to be greatly exaggerate,
but drops from persistent survey results of 30x down to a more realistic
10x
- Remember the good old days in 2008?
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