In China it's called the "lie flat" generation. Or "let it rot".
In Korea it's called the N-po generation - no house, no wife, no kids.
In the west it's called "Silent Quitting".
...in 1950, over half of 30-year-olds were married homeowners. By 2025, some analysts project that number as low as 13%.
This is how we can describe the young generation of today entering the work force. The American Dream had a shelf life and it's sell-by date has passed.
That Dream was for the Boomer generation. The dream is gone and it's not by choice. It's not true that the youth are simply having less kids by choice. It's because in the past one income per household was enough to raise a family. But today both parents have to work full time and it's still not enough to buy a house or have two kids.
That's not a societal transformation. It's not an economic fluke. It's the visible outcome of an invisible strategy—one that extracted everything it could from a three-generation arc and left only illusions in its place.
The Boomer generation stole from their children, from the future generation by using this capitalist debt-based financial system that we have today. It was destined to fail at some point. And that point is now.
We cry about the demographic from USA to China, Japan, and EU. Population numbers are collapsing in those countries (if we exclude mass engineered migration). Yet this is the outcome of squeezing the middle class for the past few decades. They can no longer afford to have those kids like their parents and grandparents.
The system itself is the problem. And as we know, systems are made by people at the top and implemented by people in the middle for people at the bottom. Those at the top, near the money printer get more wealth as they go along and those at the bottom get less. Those at the top get cheap credit and buy assets that accrue value while those at the bottom work a daily wage which never keeps up with expenses and are eventually sucked dry by this inflation. Their life energy in the form of time and health and money is extracted from them by those at the top. That's how they designed the financial system - to enrich themselves at the top at our expense.
Thus the moral collapse of humanity has allowed for the sociopath class to climb to the top and move the goalposts to suit themselves, to write the money rules for their own class, not for the working class. Not any more, even if it was once possible for a generation or two.
We have come to that inflection point in history, nudged on by the arrival of the next industrial revolution, where mass layoffs and changes in work arise and the masses are pushed over the tipping point in despair and perhaps civil unrest. A hungry man is an angry man.
Just at the same time, a new form of mass surveillance and programmable digital money arrives in the form of CBDCs to lock down the masses even more, so that civil war is actually impossible. All the elite need to do is turn off our money and what was yours becomes theirs, in a form of confiscation at a whim. The systems are almost in place.
The entire economic order is bankrupt--ideologically, politically and financially. If nothing changes at the fundamental level, the rich will continue to get richer at the expense of those priced out of the bubblicious assets, and the older generations will continue to accrue unearned wealth while younger wage earners are reduced to debt-serfdom and wage slavery.
Either humanity grabs this last chance to rise up and overthrow their oppressors at the money printers and lending benches, or we lose our freedom for good. The time has never been more urgent. These are the last years of freedom, perhaps the last months. Plan accordingly.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/go-ahead-and-rage-boomers-problem-entire-economic-order
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/boomer-mirage
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