Modern Wisdom

Podcast Notes Takeaways

• Globalization is ending; the year 2019 is as good as it is ever going to be
• After 70 years of people having fewer kids as a result of moving off the farm and into the city, the world is running out of mature adults, who are necessary for the consumption-based economic system to function 
• From an economic perspective, the U.S. is better positioned than most nations because its post-war generation actually continued to have kids at the onset of globalization + America has a much higher mortality rate once people age past 55
  • American wealth gets cycled back to the younger generation much faster than in nations where people live to be much older

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Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical analyst, author and a speaker.

The world is changing faster than ever, and a lot of the countries, dynamics, peace treaties and structures we're familiar with may be about to come to an end. Peter's job consists of him analysing data from geography, demographics, and global politics to understand economic trends and make predictions. And if his predictions are correct, the next 50 years are going to look incredibly different.

Expect to learn why China will lose half of it's population by 2050, why globalisation is coming to an end even though we're more connected than ever, why population demographics are one of the most important factors in determining the future, whether automation will help or hinder us, whether food shortages are actually something to panic about and much more...

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