Crash Course 2: Chapter 6 — Demographics & Infrastructure
Peak Prosperity
Chris Martenson
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🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This is the last chapter in the Economic “E” of Crash Course 2.0.
Not a very sexy title, I know, but together demographics and a profound failure to maintain and/or invest in the future puts the US way behind the eight ball.
Both of these factors are going to be extraordinarily expensive over the coming years. Demographics because the US has already lost the ‘right’ pyramid shape of its population to support the Boomer retirees. Social security is completely wiped out by 2033 (but in reality already has zero money in it).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Dr. Chris Martinson here with you and with another exciting chapter of the crash course. |
| 0:07.5 | And today we're going to be talking about demographics and infrastructure. I know. Super exciting. |
| 0:12.7 | These are really important concepts because it completes the economic side of this whole thing, which puts us in the frame of understanding how unsustainable the current trajectory that the United States is and by extension, many other Western countries. |
| 0:27.2 | We're all kind of in the same boat. |
| 0:29.0 | The United States is a fractal representation, if you will, of how everything's going to unfold other places, too, basically the whole world. |
| 0:36.3 | So let's start with a quick summary |
| 0:40.0 | around that and after these chapters what we're going to be moving into then is energy and this |
| 0:45.8 | is going to be the most important part of the entire crash course and as well the environment so |
| 0:51.1 | let's go there right now check this out out. Demographics and infrastructure. This is |
| 0:55.8 | where we're at. So here's where we are in the crash course so far. I've presented that there are |
| 0:59.0 | three E's, right? The economy, energy and environment, honorary fourth E, which is exponential growth, |
| 1:05.3 | put them all together. And you're looking at things like global credits, exponential money growth, failure to save, aging |
| 1:12.9 | populations, et cetera. Those are the two pieces we're going to be talking about today is kind of |
| 1:16.8 | this national failure to save as well as aging population because they both have huge impacts. |
| 1:22.4 | Demographics is destiny when it comes to debt-based money systems in particular and their exponential |
| 1:28.6 | growth needs. So that's what we're trying to do is put all these things together. Why? |
| 1:33.3 | Because I'm leading towards a conclusion, which is this, that we're really just on an unsustainable |
| 1:37.6 | course. It's completely obvious. This whole industrial approach to, you know, how the world |
| 1:43.9 | is going to turn out is this whole industrial approach to, you know, how the world is going to turn out is, um, |
| 1:45.7 | this whole industrial approach, it's, it's got an expiration date. |
| 1:50.8 | Like, it's not it's not even that I, oh, how should we save it? |
| 1:53.6 | I don't think it can be saved. |
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