The political issue for 2040 is going to be countries in demographic crises pretty much everywhere trying to drastically change housing, employment, and childcare to try to get their populations to reproduce.

The rent seeking which has made so much of people’s lifetime income dedicated to housing which is getting progressively smaller makes investing or just affording children unreasonable to very many people.

Society will need to reorganize itself so that people can have children younger and afford the space to raise them in comfortably which means working parents who can hire childcare so that they can have lives outside of only raising children.

This doesn’t happen with high density city property development which is about the only thing people advocate for.

We need zoning in cities that forces the presence of big spaces for people that actually want them including parking for vehicles and significant tax penalties for vacancy.

Housing needs to be a bad investment.

Facebook ads seem to think I’ma real estate investor and one of the ads I’m seeing a lot is bragging about sixty percent returns on property development projects. That is not adding value and charging appropriately for it, it’s just theft.