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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: carranza2 who wrote (209823)	12/31/2024 11:49:52 AM
From: gg cox	Respond to of 217542

Layin on the line,, no punches pulled,, and funny too.

To: carranza2 who wrote (209823)	12/31/2024 2:14:27 PM
From: David	Respond to of 217542

During the holidays my sister's family hosted a get together attended by about 30 people with pot luck food and a bean bag tossing tournament in the newly built garage connected to the house. Kristina, the lady who told me at Buffalo Lake that for Russia 'it is about family' was there and we talked for a bit. I heard she started working as a steamfitter/pipefitter and with experience she now had an office job working with drawings regarding planning, material take-offs, she mentioned she had a couple people over seeing her work and how there were different levels in the trades and how some trades had changed over the years. I mentioned I worked in drafting and told her I worked in a shop for two years before deciding to go to technical school because I didn't want to pull wrenches when I was fifty. I mentioned that I was pushed onto a software vendor's platform and somehow fit into the conversation the material "you gottta eat" to which she replied 'well you do' and "Look after the kids and the dollars will look after themselves" to which she replied 'Oh great, I got a pink job!' I told her 'I don't think it is a pink job, I think it is military'. She said she had some of that. I asked her how Sasha was used in Russian as Emma's mom had talked about it at the lake, she replied that her name was Alexandra and how Sasha was used similar to how 'Chuck' is used for the name Charlie. Lily and Emma who I first met at Buffalo Lake were there also, Emma was being sociable in the garage where most of the people were while Lily stayed inside the house with a few of the other kids and colored pictures in a book, after a while as Breanna sat with her I looked at her work and told her "Good work." Breanna, who's mom is knowledgable about computers, had a conversation with me earlier in the garage where I learned that she was done high school and had plans to go to university though she had decided to wait on that and was working with for my sister. Lily's mom Sasha was not in attendance and the kids were there with their father who stayed in the garage, in conversation with him I mentioned how when I was little I was given some money and my mom told me that when I spend the money "to ask myself, 'are you sure that is where you want to spend that money?' I told him I wanted a new coffee maker. Before he left to go home he wished me luck with the new coffee maker. Later in the evening I met Nicole who I learned was nurse. She showed up later after the tournament was over as she had been working that day. I returned to Calgary on Sunday. Yesterday I did go to Canadian Tire and get a new coffee maker, my brother and my sister both phoned and wished me a happy birthday. My sister who called in the evening told me she was busy working during the day, I asked her 'with Bree?' and she replied 'yes'. I do not have any of the pictures Lily quietly and diligently worked on to show here so I will include these references of other pictures I have previously posted. SI Message - Uncle Si's pictures of planes, before he continued his education and became a surgeon he was a bomber pilot in the second world war. SI Message - Picture from the book BUILDING and WORKING TOGETHER, A Study of the Thorhild Area using "Look after the kids and the dollars will look after themselves."

To: carranza2 who wrote (209823)	12/31/2024 10:41:51 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217542

Re <<No one here touches the fatal Chinese demographics issue>> ... likely because there is nothing fatal, just in watch & brief mode re a workaround already tee-ed starting 2025 for test sites in Sichuan province; but as far as touches - plenty of leads to discourse for I generally avoid topics I have no insight and leave the topic as questions for others, but on topics I deem important, I I pay attention to on- and off-line Message 34904193 just a heads up, that even though Team China just announced intention and overarching guidance re incentives for folks to marry and give birth to four kids all the negative press already filling up the internet with sources ranging from Voice of America to whatever else Hilarious My rudimentary understanding is that ladies are to be encouraged to stay home and rear young, and any young over the one starts entailing financial incentives given that parenting cost money and careers, and requires at least 19-20 years until the youngest of the for is ready for either vocational or uni education and either can be at the cost of the state as long as the test scores good. the monthly stipend is akin to salary compensation because motherhood is a full-time job when correctly done am told should the program work out in the initial province (Sichuan), look for rollout nationwide likely to be taken up enthusiastically in the rural regions such a program cannot really work in other domains either because of politics or due to high cost coupled with low budget going to be interesting Below some public pronouncements minus the VoAmerica-led noise Fresh off of the printer, see below, and now we wait to see detailed implementation regulations] ... Message 34885413 starting to crack the code by ancient and tried book, very communistic, for the greater good, for common prosperity, because of shared destiny, given Confucius philosophy, all leading to 'the next china is still china' and not Brazil Message 34885407 I believe china shall crack the nut of demographics, and once so, storms into and through 2032, and emerge the other side as 'the next china is still china', and not Brazil the protocols at china's disposal are really only at the disposal of china, perhaps Korea, maybe Japan, but doubtful anywhere else per imperatives lead to solutions Message 34520903 One narrative is that the neoliberal CW is suppressing China China China by all means nasty and otherwise, because the Chinese 'model' is working, enabling China China China under the CPC to once more rally Chinaand get China back to 35% global GDP / 50% global manufacturing where China once was Message 34374787 C2 ... (5) commented on demographic non-issues before Message 34373806

To: carranza2 who wrote (209823)	1/1/2025 3:48:58 AM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Recommended By Arran Yuan gg cox Julius Wong Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217542

C2, I'm happy to provide understanding about Made in China demographics of which I'm an international expert. Decades ago, it was obvious to me that they had blundered bigly with the 1 child policy. 2 decades ago I was pointing out to TJ the 20% surplus of young men, which he denied. Now, belatedly, China has gone into reverse on 1 child and says multiple is fine. But oops a daisy, as in Japan and many countries, young women and young men are finding their lives not conducive to breeding swarms. Even with the population busts underway all over the world, I don't see a problem. Sure, old geezers won't get $millions of medical treatment and free luxury old age care. But people who haven't provided for themselves can still be given clean and comfortable accommodation such as the single men's hut I lived in 54 years ago. My personal GDP per capita fell dramatically when I quit working and quit buying as I already had everything, more or less. It doesn't matter if GDP falls if people can afford what they want. Economists think falling GDP is bad. They think rising unemployment is bad too. But they aren't necessarily bad if they just reflect the fact that people don't want to produce as much as they did, and they don't want to work for the money that's on offer and would rather rest on their laurels and savings. People might decide to start having lots of children. All it takes is a man and woman to agree that they would like to be breeders. It's easy. It's fun. It's cheap. Of course one can't be spending time and money on entertainment, travel, hotels, nice cars, etc. But happiness doesn't come from retail therapy and big spending. Children could easily come back into fashion. People in China could decide that's what they'd like to do. If there are lots of empty houses, the price will go down. If China got down to 500 million people and Japan to 50 million they'd both be just fine. Especially with the technological revolution continuing to make life a breeze. Robots and machinery do most of the work. A few combine harvesters can feed millions of people. Car factories full of robots make beautiful cars cheaply. AI is doing the thinking for no charge. Life's a doddle. Mqurice