paulr

Except for the state pension and very tightly controlled disability benefits. The rest will be gone.

Graz

Can't see it happening myself ...

Make sure you bump the thread in forty years time though

scoobeenut

Better grab what you can now then!

RobsyUK

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TBH I don't see why the state should give money out. In other countries they don't have hand out and YES there are problems but in those places they don't have running water / waste in place.
Going back to growning your own (healthy food) and actually working for money.
Like I've said previously, Everything goes full circle.

legb4rsk

40 years time! That's a bit random.You could predict almost anything that far in the future with the rate of change accelerating all the time.

I predict there will be no State in 40 years time.

pslewis

I predict that, in 40 years time, the members of SN will have built a statue of me outside of the old - now derelict - Subaru UK Headquarters.

And I thank you

stonejedi

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Any predictions for the euro millions draw

RobsyUK

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Thought you were going to say a cast iron PSLewis at the top of the stairs








Disclaimer: Hope I don't upset anyone

scoobeenut

I think a Statue of you in the Natural History Museum along with all the other dinosaurs would be more appropriate.

mrmadcap

Does this mean you will have to get a job?

No more Jeremey Kyle for you boy

warrenm2

Think the state pension will disappear as we know it before then as its unaffordable.

jods

Isn't this what the Liverpool Care Path was designed to help with?

Chip

About bloody time too

TelBoy

In 40 years' time, America will probably be bankrupt. That will put the cat amongst the pigeons for capitalism.

Chip

In 40 years time I very much I will be around to worry about it.

TelBoy

You know, i really am glad i'm not a youngster growing up in today's world. I guess that's a common sentiment for middle-aged people, but something tells me the bubble might just be close to bursting in some shape or form...

Chip

Tel,

I would imagine people were saying that when you were a lad as well though.

TelBoy

Yep, i reckon you're right. The world will keep spinning.

Chip

It most certainly will, albeit sometimes in the wrong direction.

warrenm2

Err no, if true it says something about American politicians outspending the money that capitalism generates.

GazTheHat

Well the feckin' jet stream had a crazy sense of direction last year.

jonc

In 40 years time, the ice caps will be all but gone and the world we know will be submerged under 200ft of water.......

P1Fanatic

Ah you have watched Waterworld as well

TelBoy

Why does that get a pseudo-learned "err no" when almost every capitalist economic model on the planet is teetering on the brink of collapse? Demand, supply, income, expenditure. Capitalism.

GlesgaKiss

Have you got a better idea?

Maz

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Socialism?

GlesgaKiss

I said a better one.

TelBoy

Sadly not. As you know it's capitalism which gives me a living. But the rampant creed of entitlement, the abandonment of personal responsibility, the dissolution of national identities, something's got to give, in my opinion.

GlesgaKiss

You're probably right about that, especially when you think about the effect the rising living standards in the east are going to have on the sustainability of the whole thing. Do you think shale gas will give us a lifeline?

TelBoy

Yes i think it will have an effect, the UK has only scratched the surface of fracking. But the US, where it's comparatively well established, is still facing financial meltdown. It just feels like the machine has become too unwieldy the world over, and developments like this are just temporary elasoplasts. But hey, people have predicted the end of capitalism and consumerism for many decades; if the road is long enough, who knows how long you can keep kicking the can down it.