>>14338991Most modern nations will face challenges involving population collapse and obesity by or before 2040 mostly in part due to consolidation of wealth and gentrification of its cities. Gentrification is a poison pill for any society, as young people who want to own assets to grow their equity and invest for the future, save to grow the wealth of their family to be, and involve themselves in high paying jobs that repeat the cycle are denied the opportunity; forced to be bound to a perpetual rent based economy. That means, the amount of things they can buy/own/work on drastically drops because they're all fundamentally limited by whatever apartment/condo they can manage to rent. Gentrification also means that tearing down old buildings or accepting that certain historic districts should go in favor of building modernized transportation and goods/services sectors in the city is denied. This exacerbates the poison pill, wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of the few, society stagnates, and collapse eventually occurs.
In part due to that, Starlink is a little bit interesting in that it can decouple this common problem by enabling the young people to work from anywhere, pursue their own hobbies and lifestyle ambitions without being tied to any one location for life. That mobility becomes valuable for employers around the country. It moves tax revenue around and ensures that areas of common neglect aren't as neglected as they start seeing more routine traffic as a result, and ultimately, I think will also change the nature of what constitutes a home. Now, you can save up money and instead of buying a house, you can buy a house boat and live out on a lake. House boats cost around half as much as they do a house. You can buy a really nice RV (soon eRV) for like 100-150k. Live in that, drive around in that, go camping with that. CoL on that is low, and you can mount solar panels and Starlink dishes to it and its practically all there.