Do you want some Change

Well, we are going to get some. Change is inevitable. Even how we use change will change. Good change bad change neutral change. It all depends on who and where you are.

Social change is so slow in the U.S. that events seem to be overrunning or outrunning our ability to adapt the them. As our population ages is seems we are getting more stuck in the mud of gridlock than ever. We don’t let children vote, maybe we should not let the elderly vote either.

Oil, the flow and counter flow will change. For decades oil has flowed from oil rich countries of the less developed world to the rest of the world and money has flowed the other way. That money because it is easily aggregated was rife for corruption. Huge sums of money always do that. It was so important that this be so the trade needed to be in dollars. Those oil rich states are going to have big changes as the flow of dollars on which they are so dependent is not going to be big enough to support their societies.

Some changes are not really changes, we are going to see changes in human migration but it will be the same but bigger and more critical and disruptive. That said there will be some reversals in select areas. For instance, already south east Asians are leaving the middle east.

Change change, in the U.S. against the tide of the coming cashless society we are seeing a shortage of cash, lose change, etc. Maybe the cashless society is a long way off or never.

Society is changing to prevent some of its worst evils but not changing fast enough because we mostly react instead of anticipating. Most times we are working to correct yesterdays problems while tomorrows problems are becoming more dangerous. Half a century on we have still to correct the problems of civil rights (for women and BIPOC). A century after income inequality brought us Marxist Revolutions income inequality has only gotten worse.

TEK