society might fix itself, but not before we are old men. even with high immigration we are likely to experience population declines over the next decade. this is going to be very weird and something no living human outside of warzones has ever experienced. very soon we are going to have a civilization in which there are more retired people than there are working people. even amongst boomers, having more than 2 children was somewhat rare. 2 kids was seen as the norm, but tons of boomers just had 1 kid. same with genx although even more only children.  a lot of the nostalgia for malls and other populated urban environments is just gonna explode over the next decade. there's about 73 million millenials in america. and about 69 million zoomers. there's only about 38 million gen alphas in america. (millenial 81-95)(zoomer 96-2010)(alpha 10-24). by contrast, there were about 76 million american boomers (46-64) although that number goes higher with immigration.  point being, gen alpha is going to grow up in a world that seems very overbuilt. shops and music venues frequented by millenials and zoomers will start to close down, as will bars. most noticeable will be the schools and universities. incoming classes are dropping rapidly in size. gen alpha will grow up and if they watch old movies like porky's or animal house, or even american pie and superbad, they will be astonished that it was believable, even in fiction, to portray schools with so many students.  now, they may end up being a fluke generation, like genx (still had 65 million tho), and we millenials and zoomers may end up breeding with them to pump these numbers up, but that's not a guarantee. if things continue along the current trajectory, gen alpha is gonna inhabit a strange fucking world. just imagine way less people outside and a shittier economy as a result. the whole fucking country will be like detroit when most of the houses on a block were vacant
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