What will the 2030s be like? - Could I even imagine how painful and horrific it might be?

[Alex Hogendorp]

The outlook on the future seems to change depending on the level of people's optimism and experience.

 

[Gone Ham]

Hell

 

[Joe Swanson]

I can't wait for Hitler 2: Electric Boogaloo

 

[Idiotron]

A lot more conservative as a backlash against the overly liberal degeneracy of the 2010's and most likely a large chink of 2020's from the looks of it.

 

[Crunchy Oats]

Horrible and full of anime avatars

 

[User names must be unique]

2030? That's a bit presumptuous the Gregorian calendar is racist and must be abolished there is no definitive current year, you must ask people what their preferred calendar is before making statements like that.

 

[Epic Fail Man]

Gay

 

[RussianParasite]

Not this again. We had this thread for the 20s and look how that has turned out so far…

 

[Duke Nukem]

Look at how the 2020s have been, they'll be that but worse.

 

[Solid Snek]

2030? That's a bit presumptuous the Gregorian calendar is racist and must be abolished there is no definitive current year, you must ask people what their preferred calendar is before making statements like that.

You remember when people were flipping out about AD vs CE?

You laugh now, but the days of the white man's Thermidoraphobia are numbered.

 

[Maurice Caine]

What can change in 3078 days?

 

[Darksy DePhil]

The US will become less relevant and we will be watching a worldwide beef between Russia and China.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Depending on the countries around the globe, China will be trying to take over everything. Most of us will be on our mid 30’s by then.

 

[Tookie]

Endless trash.

 

[Aqua Panda]

Depends on if we get a major conservative backlash to current day stuff. Kinda like how the 1980's Conservative wave was a big "fuck off" to the 1960's-1970's in a lot of ways. I personally doubt it at this point, but it could happen. (News media and academia is just WAY too dominated by the extreme left these days, but stranger things have happened when generations shift.)

We are going to have another major housing bubble pop sometime this decade. Inflation is shooting through the roof and we are on the verge of a major housing crisis starting in a few days when the Covid eviction moratoriums expire at the end of July. IMO the early 2030's will be a lot like 2009-2012 in dealing with the fallout and recovery. I really worry that the middle class will continue to shrink and the USA will become a nation of renters and landlords. (Which should be terrifying to anyone who knows how important a viable middle class is to a stable society. Unless something really major shifts, I'm expecting company towns to effectively come back in a big way through big tech.) Inflation is also really going to hurt people. I don't think a lot of people realize just how many will likely end up homeless when their spending power means jack with rents & food skyrocketing. Crime and theft is already starting to shoot up and it's going to get even worse when people are hungry and desperate. A LOT of people will basically decide to become monsters since current woke society already tells them they are and they have nothing to lose anymore.

China will likely get drunk on power when they become the #1 world economy if the projections hold true. They'll start throwing their weight around more. Especially in the South China Sea and Taiwan. However, I honestly expect the CCP to implode at some point. A LOT of their real economy is a house of cards and built on corruption and shoddy workmanship. Also, more and more of the Han Chinese have gotten a taste of a modern day middle class lifestyle and they like it. They will start to demand change and the CCP won't be able to Tienanmen Square it every time.

Russia is an open question. Putin is a dictator in all but name at this point and much will depend on his eventual successor. Either his current grip on power will remain with his eventual chosen prodigy or things will destabilize as a power vacuum opens up upon his death. (Or eventual infirmity if the Parkinson's rumors are true.)

I could go on and spitball for awhile, but those are the major Geo-political issues that are likely to spring up. Climate change is also going to become a bigger and bigger issue if temperature extremes keep getting worse. We got dangerously close to a few power grid failures when the west coast had the extreme heat domes earlier in the summer.

 

[b0o0pinsn0o0tz]

The living shall envy the dead.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Like this but bigger eyes.

 

[(((Obar Lazcano Kamz)))]

all cars will be electric and the Chinese will rule america

 

[Megaroad 2012]

2036, everyone will be nude so no one will be rude.

 

[:gold:]

State-sanctioned homosexuality and realistic video games.