We generally call those wars and plagues.
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Yup.
We can only fucking hope...
The worst part of WWIII will be the second wave boomers, because they’ll trigger WWIV when they age out of relevancy.
yes. it's actually a huge thing the funeral world is dreading.
Publicly dreading, privately planning what they are going to do with all that extra cash.
There's GOLD in them caskets
Not if the retirement homes take it first!
Retirement is more of a synchronized event, because folks generally retire around the same age...
People are generally born at the same age too.
Yes, but the point is their dying is more of a distribution.
Unless it's Cities Skylines. Then they all die at the same exact moment and your entire network gets slammed with hearses unable to get anywhere.
Nah bro you just need more cemeteries and crematoriums, more hearses. Less dense neighborhoods with more mixed zoning.
But the noise! Figuring out the optimal way to zone so it’s not too noisy, polluted, and people have space to park is one of the trickier parts of the game. (But I like the challenge.)
The real trick is that everything doesn't fit nicely in a nice neat little glove-fitty block irl, so mirror that.
Mixed zoning doesn't necessarily mean you got office abutting residential abutting commercial abutting industrial.
Think of a suburb/city burb. Do you know any that have like 20 blocks of residential? None! Doesn't exist! Maybe like 2-4 blocks max before you break up the neighborhoods with some commercial and light industry or some offices. Even residential neighborhoods have gas stations on the arterial roads connecting them.
So like, don't look where the wind blows, where the fertile soil is, and say "okay that quadrant of the map is for all my industry." You'll get high resource costs due to traffic. Don't make a mega commercial center, not even Broadway in nyc...
God dammit I havent played in like 2 months. Fine. I'll make a new city.
Ugh happened at my job. Everyone older than me retired. All of them. So only ppl my age are running the show. Didn't help they did payouts for early retirement 3x.
But OP is imagining they'll all die at the same time too.
I like to call them death waves because that is what we called them in Cities Skylines.
Generally, you'll see terms like "demographic collapse" instead, but yeah basically.
A lot of people were born during the immediate post-WWII years. Those people are now dying. Cause and effect.
We just want them to give us their houses.
Nah, they have a reverse mortgage on them so you'll need to buy them at further inflated prices because of it. Your inheritance was just debt and crippling depression.
Death Boom sounds cooler
It's going to be a lot cooler, too... On average these people have destroyed the world at a higher rate than those before them.
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To an extent, COVID hit some of the oldest boomers - it was a little early, if we had held of COVID for another 10 years it definitely would have been a prime boomer expiration accelerator.
As things are, my parents are some of the earliest boomers and they're just turning 80. The death-rate boom should be picking up speed soon. Too bad they're giving all their acumumulated wealth to the healthcare industry instead of their kids.
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A baby is the product of birth, the product of death is a corpse, so it'd be a corpse bloom.
I think you may be looking for this: https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths
This website keeps coming up. They do a great job.
Starts with a "oh shit these old people have expensive healthcare needs!", proceeds to "how the hell are we going to pay for their elder benefits?" (Social Security in the US), and eventually to "even their houses got gobbled up by the banks and private capital when they had to reverse mortgage their homes to pay off their medical bills and live out their final days...."
One can only hope.
I think the deaths are a little more spread out.
The "baby boom" happened between 1946 and 1964, an 18 year period. Not everyone will die within an 18 year period. Some have already passed, some will live into their 90's and could be around until the 2060's
Yea, but it has more to do with baby boomers wrecking everything than anything else.
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