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Post by John Titor on Apr 30, 2020 13:06:58 GMT 10
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Post by Cassie on Apr 30, 2020 14:14:10 GMT 10
I predict that some time between now and the heat death of the universe, there will be an even bigger tragedy than the coronavirus. There, I now have the prophetic powers of an astrologer. The coronavirus and the economic catastrophe it's caused is unprecedented in U.S. history. It has pretty much destroyed everything. The reality we are living in now was unthinkable six months ago. This is the kind of stuff horror movies are made about. The time period from now until around 2035 is going to be the most perilous anyone alive today has ever experienced. Not many people from the Greatest Generation are still around.
Sadly, in our lifetimes we'll probably see the climate catastrophe cause a crisis that's even worse.
I wonder what the 2030s will be like. They can't be as bad or worse than 2020 is, otherwise the world will pretty much collapse
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Post by karlpalaka on May 14, 2020 13:27:13 GMT 10
Only like 30 something percent of the people in the US are employed right now. Over 30 million layoffs happened since mid March.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 1:36:37 GMT 10
Only like 30 something percent of the people in the US are employed right now. Over 30 million layoffs happened since mid March. Welcome to the Trump economy.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 12:16:18 GMT 10
Only like 30 something percent of the people in the US are employed right now. Over 30 million layoffs happened since mid March. How many people do you think are in the U.S. labor force anyway?
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Post by smartboi on May 15, 2020 13:18:59 GMT 10
Only like 30 something percent of the people in the US are employed right now. Over 30 million layoffs happened since mid March. Unemployment is nowhere near that bad. We're actually around 15% unemployment.
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Post by karlpalaka on May 15, 2020 14:42:59 GMT 10
Only like 30 something percent of the people in the US are employed right now. Over 30 million layoffs happened since mid March. Unemployment is nowhere near that bad. We're actually around 15% unemployment. I am talking about whoever actually has a job. They dont count kids, retired people, and housewives in unemployment.
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Post by karlpalaka on May 15, 2020 14:44:54 GMT 10
Only like 30 something percent of the people in the US are employed right now. Over 30 million layoffs happened since mid March. How many people do you think are in the U.S. labor force anyway? A month back, it was 133 million, meaning now it could be somewhere around 120-129 million as millions of people are still being laid off right now due to the lockdown. Out of the 331 million living in the states, do the math. Around 33-38 percent of the country's population only has jobs. www.statista.com/statistics/209123/seasonally-adjusted-monthly-number-of-employees-in-the-us/
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Post by smartboi on May 15, 2020 15:36:36 GMT 10
I just did the math right now because I'm bored. According to the link you provided, 159 million were employed in February and since then 25 million have lost their job. 25m/159m= .157 or roughly 16 percent. In order for unemployment to be at 30 percent you would need 47.7 million people to lose their job and there hasn't been any news sources to report a number that high yet.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 22:00:30 GMT 10
I just did the math right now because I'm bored. According to the link you provided, 159 million were employed in February and since then 25 million have lost their job. 25m/159m= .157 or roughly 16 percent. In order for unemployment to be at 30 percent you would need 47.7 million people to lose their job and there hasn't been any news sources to report a number that high yet. Right, if my math is correct, we're at approximately 25% unemployment (~30m/~120m), which means 75% of the labor force is still employed. Things are bad - like height of the Great Depression bad - but there's no reason to skew the math for drama.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 11:15:03 GMT 10
I think the 2020s will favor chain restaurants over locally owned, big beer over craft breweries, and suburbs over urban areas. It's going to be basically the opposite of 2010s hipster culture. I think popular cities for young people will change. In the 2010s, everything was about Portland, Seattle, Denver, or Austin. I think the 2020s is most likely to favor large cities that are spread out, preferably in warm climates.
Brick-and-mortar retail will barely exist by 2022. Everything but the essentials will be sold online. Eventually Amazon is no longer the media darling that it currently is and calls to break it up start to become louder. We're looking at a situation where Amazon is pretty much the sole retailer for the entire country.
I can see EDM dropping off the map for a while, since it will probably be years before nightclub culture returns. Nightclubs are one of the last things that will probably come back after coronavirus, long after the neighborhood bars. I'd make a bet that 0% of the nightclubs that were open New Years 2020 will still be open New Years 2025. There will be nightclubs, but the current ones are all going to fold and club culture will have to rebuild itself.
I think EDM has kind of become stale anyways. It hasn't really changed much in the past five years.
I think this could be a big decade for marijuana is Biden wins the election. We're ready for federal legalization, it's just the fundamentalist Christians and Donald Trump holding it up.
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Post by John Titor on May 16, 2020 12:05:33 GMT 10
I think the 2020s will favor chain restaurants over locally owned, big beer over craft breweries, and suburbs over urban areas. It's going to be basically the opposite of 2010s hipster culture. I think popular cities for young people will change. In the 2010s, everything was about Portland, Seattle, Denver, or Austin. I think the 2020s is most likely to favor large cities that are spread out, preferably in warm climates. Brick-and-mortar retail will barely exist by 2022. Everything but the essentials will be sold online. Eventually Amazon is no longer the media darling that it currently is and calls to break it up start to become louder. We're looking at a situation where Amazon is pretty much the sole retailer for the entire country. I can see EDM dropping off the map for a while, since it will probably be years before nightclub culture returns. Nightclubs are one of the last things that will probably come back after coronavirus, long after the neighborhood bars. I'd make a bet that 0% of the nightclubs that were open New Years 2020 will still be open New Years 2025. There will be nightclubs, but the current ones are all going to fold and club culture will have to rebuild itself. I think EDM has kind of become stale anyways. It hasn't really changed much in the past five years. I think this could be a big decade for marijuana is Biden wins the election. We're ready for federal legalization, it's just the fundamentalist Christians and Donald Trump holding it up. good, sad about mom pop stores tho I hated the whole vibe of the mid 2010s it just felt VICE.com crude drawing off brand soda, I am more of a Suburban living gal anyways.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 12:31:35 GMT 10
I also think long hair on guys is coming back. It already started to in the late 2010s but I think it really will this decade. As far as brand-consciousness, I'd say that may be the one aspect of the 2010s that stays around, especially since we are looking at a bad economy most of this decade. I think a lot of luxury brands won't last.
I think the big push for public transit in mid-sized cities is done. New urbanism is done as well. I think we may end up seeing another golden age of the automobile. I have nothing to back that up, but that's just a feeling I have.
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Post by karlpalaka on May 16, 2020 13:09:13 GMT 10
I just did the math right now because I'm bored. According to the link you provided, 159 million were employed in February and since then 25 million have lost their job. 25m/159m= .157 or roughly 16 percent. In order for unemployment to be at 30 percent you would need 47.7 million people to lose their job and there hasn't been any news sources to report a number that high yet. Right, if my math is correct, we're at approximately 25% unemployment (~30m/~120m), which means 75% of the labor force is still employed. Things are bad - like height of the Great Depression bad - but there's no reason to skew the math for drama. Again, I am referring to how much percent of the population has jobs, and that could be around 33-38%. I never said I was just looking at the labor force.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 21:06:18 GMT 10
Right, if my math is correct, we're at approximately 25% unemployment (~30m/~120m), which means 75% of the labor force is still employed. Things are bad - like height of the Great Depression bad - but there's no reason to skew the math for drama. Again, I am referring to how much percent of the population has jobs, and that could be around 33-38%. I never said I was just looking at the labor force. Unless you're planning on including my daughter, who is a toddler that can't even talk yet let alone hold down substantial gainful employment, the percentage of employed among the labor force is the only metric that matters. Nobody is denying that it is really bad right now, but skewing the numbers for drama like this is just as bad as those who are trying to downplay the crisis.
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