Start of the new cycle

[David Horn]

(10-02-2018, 07:29 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: So, who voted for 2030s? Why do you think it'll take so long?

That was my question as well.  


I'm in the "potential 4T failure" camp, and that makes the next few years hard to fathom.  If the economy crashes, we enter another war (especially a major one) or chaos erupts on a large scale, then the 4T will have to play out one way or another.  It seems to me that our patience for more disruption is fading pretty fast, so the resolution might be authoritarian but it will be definitive.  On the other hand, we might continue to muddle through, with inequality continuing to rise, but with overall living standards high enough to make the issue secondary to our many animosities.  In that case, we'll go through placid pendulum swings until something serious finally does erupt -- assume it's in the next 2T.  In neither case, can this wait another 12+ years to get stable.