This is an awesome thread with alot of great conversation and contributions. --//-- Re: the tides and waves over time in culture, and the beer, protests and 'woke pushback, --the majority of the energy behind these narrative is created by the folks that want to have that argument---the division and public distraction is the point ----if WE The People---are having silly nonsense arguments over beer and flags--- WE are not working together to learn about the power of Bitcoin while large institutions move in to claim as much of that inevitable future as they can. --//-- As far as birth rates in Japan...one can't just sum the number of genders and apply to the rest of the world--Japan also had oldest workers in the Fukushima spontaneously decide to have the older workers remain re: long term radiation---there is a very different cultural expectation of responsibility--- you don't have 8 children around a trailer in Japan is the notecard version. -- Not apples to apples re: population growth---different cultures, economies, etc.