3 certain truths from Jeff Park's latest article that every...
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3 certain truths from Jeff Park's latest article that every investor needs to understand.
Truth 1: A third of the world's population is already in decline.
"If you look at the top 10 first wave economies, countries including China, US, South Korea, Italy... they account for about 30% of global population and about 70% of the world economy GDP. They are all declining."
"In South Korea, by 2050, the median age is gonna be 56."
"If you're not having children today, there's certainly not gonna be adults eighteen years from now. You already know with some certain amount of certainty... this is a slow moving train wreck that we have to be cognizant for."
🎬 @dgt10011
Truth 1: A third of the world's population is already in decline.
"If you look at the top 10 first wave economies, countries including China, US, South Korea, Italy... they account for about 30% of global population and about 70% of the world economy GDP. They are all declining."
"In South Korea, by 2050, the median age is gonna be 56."
"If you're not having children today, there's certainly not gonna be adults eighteen years from now. You already know with some certain amount of certainty... this is a slow moving train wreck that we have to be cognizant for."
🎬 @dgt10011
2:53
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Truth 2: Wealth concentration in the US now exceeds the Gilded Age.
And it's only getting harder to fix.
"The top 10% account for a third of the consumption economy, which is actually pretty high. I think it's the highest the US has ever been. Even during the Gilded Ages of the 1920s, the roaring twenties... it peaked closer to 25%."
"The thing that looks remarkably different now than the past is everyone has become a nomadic citizen of Earth. You actually have this ability to move capital and people around in ways that wasn't possible."
"When you hear Governor Hochul asking people to come back to New York because the tax base is going down... she's basically recognizing that capital can move."
🎬 @dgt10011
And it's only getting harder to fix.
"The top 10% account for a third of the consumption economy, which is actually pretty high. I think it's the highest the US has ever been. Even during the Gilded Ages of the 1920s, the roaring twenties... it peaked closer to 25%."
"The thing that looks remarkably different now than the past is everyone has become a nomadic citizen of Earth. You actually have this ability to move capital and people around in ways that wasn't possible."
"When you hear Governor Hochul asking people to come back to New York because the tax base is going down... she's basically recognizing that capital can move."
🎬 @dgt10011
3:42
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Truth 3: The value of labor has been declining long before AI showed up.
Technology is making it worse:
"The value of labor is reaching zero because I think technology as a whole is deflationary. I think that's the punchline."
"Labor itself is becoming less valuable while capital is itself becoming more valuable in the financial manipulation of asset prices that is happening via capital and credit creation."
"A lot of the wealth creation has actually come from stock based compensation... labor coming from income and salaried wages is maybe not where the greatest wealth creation has happened."
🎬 @dgt10011
Technology is making it worse:
"The value of labor is reaching zero because I think technology as a whole is deflationary. I think that's the punchline."
"Labor itself is becoming less valuable while capital is itself becoming more valuable in the financial manipulation of asset prices that is happening via capital and credit creation."
"A lot of the wealth creation has actually come from stock based compensation... labor coming from income and salaried wages is maybe not where the greatest wealth creation has happened."
🎬 @dgt10011
3:04
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