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Cake day: November 21st, 2023

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  • I’ve seen it go both ways.

    Grandparents slipping horribly into dementia. Refused help. Kept getting scammed out of money, luckily they had a lot. Kept driving and we kept finding new dings in their car. Had to steal the car keys multiple times.

    Finally all of their kids got together and got power of atty and got them set up in a nice care facility. They had to get moved to the memory care area not long after as they kept escaping. They thought they were on a cruise ship or something. Eventually they died but their kids had to do tons of work.

    At the other end of the spectrum is this lady that basically set everything up since her mid 50’s. Found a retirement community she liked that had normal homes and then two properties with different stages of assisted living. She’s sent her kids all of the details including funeral arrangements.

    She’s still kicking but I expect her passing will go a lot easier than the first couple I spoke of.

    Get them to talk to a friend that lives in a retirement community and start taking tours every weekend.
















  • As population numbers fall, we won’t have people that can extract those resources.

    We won’t have people to defend global trade routes. We’re seeing this already. The mighty US navy can’t prevent Iran from using cheap drones to choke the world of oil. Oil is used to make everything, and already there’s barely enough to go around.

    Countries will enter unrest and devolve.

    The next 25 years are going to be really bad.




  • I’m not anti-immigration. Immigration is not the fix for how the world will deal with declining birth rates world wide, leading to a large gap between the number of available laborers and the number of laborers needed to keep things running smoothly.

    Immigration only works if one country has more people than jobs while another country has more jobs than people.

    What we’re headed into right now is more jobs than people by a LOT.

    Also, Japan is a country that hit this problem early on (they culturally don’t have much immigration) and found that it’s also possible to export your dumb jobs to other countries that also buy the things they are making, keeping only the ones they are really good at in-country while scraping all the revenue from their exported labor. This only works because other countries were a little slower to run into this birth rate issue.

    Most of these problems fall back to WW2 and the massive amount of babies that were born afterwards.