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Amazing how right and how wrong they were. I'll bet we can do just as well. So my prediction is that by the year 2100, men and women will wear the same styles of clothing - including skirts. (You might have noticed that basketball players and tennis payers wear "shorts" that look very much like skirts already - take a look.)
In an effort to cover the costs of increasingly inefficient government and to band-aid failing infrastructure, taxes will continue to increase. As people take home less net pay, more will fall into lower income brackets, necessitating more funding for unemployment insurance, welfare, medicaid, etc. This will increase the tax burden, and cause an endless loop of tax-and-spend. Upper class earners will be able to afford accountants and tax lawyers to help them maintain their wealth. Low income households will not provide enough basis to tax, and so the middle class will continue to shoulder the burden until, one by one, their taxes and expenses overcome their income and savings and they fall into the lower class.
But seriously, I think that one of the biggest developments will be in transportation, both near and far. There are so many problems with traffic, smog, cost, resource usage, etc, that something will have to be done. I hope this happens sooner rather than later, and I would not be surprised to start seeing new ways to control parking, infrastructure, and congestion on the highways.
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Amazing how right and how wrong they were. I'll bet we can do just as well. So my prediction is that by the year 2100, men and women will wear the same styles of clothing - including skirts. (You might have noticed that basketball players and tennis payers wear "shorts" that look very much like skirts already - take a look.)
There will be no more middle class.
In an effort to cover the costs of increasingly inefficient government and to band-aid failing infrastructure, taxes will continue to increase. As people take home less net pay, more will fall into lower income brackets, necessitating more funding for unemployment insurance, welfare, medicaid, etc. This will increase the tax burden, and cause an endless loop of tax-and-spend. Upper class earners will be able to afford accountants and tax lawyers to help them maintain their wealth. Low income households will not provide enough basis to tax, and so the middle class will continue to shoulder the burden until, one by one, their taxes and expenses overcome their income and savings and they fall into the lower class.
Perhaps someone else will respond to this blog sometime in the next hundred years...
But seriously, I think that one of the biggest developments will be in transportation, both near and far. There are so many problems with traffic, smog, cost, resource usage, etc, that something will have to be done. I hope this happens sooner rather than later, and I would not be surprised to start seeing new ways to control parking, infrastructure, and congestion on the highways.
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