Ryan Burge, a Professor of Practice at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at WashU, says fewer Americans are getting more conservative as they age. People born between 1940 and 1954 still are, but among people born from 1955 to 1979, there's no change in political outlook as they age. For those born in 1980 or later, it looks like they are becoming more liberal as they age.
I take this as a hopeful sign. I don't think anyone on the political right has any idea how to organize the new world AI is quickly taking us to.
In a few years, driving jobs and unskilled work will be gone to cheap robots. AI is poised to be able to do more and more white-collar work. At some point, the choice will be the chaos of collapse if we insist the old free-market economy is the only way to do things, or figuring out how everyone lives, gets fed, and gets healthcare in a world where most people won't have jobs.
The fact that more people will be left-leaning and liberal than conservative in this world is a hopeful sign that they won't choose collapse and clinging to the old order.
Ryan Burge
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I'm GenX. We've never had any political, population, or economic power: we were constantly outnumbered by the Boomers, who were always like, "Wait your turn!" - while simultaneously refusing to give anyone else their turn.
It looked like power was going to go straight from Boomers to Millennials, which was fine, as they're more in tune with the world, and more overall.
It scares me to think that power may instead transfer to the young hyper conservative/MAGA/Andrew Tate people instead. I'm hoping that either that won't happen, or that I'll be dead before they get control.