>2030 is in 7 years, people. 7 years.
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>Massive shifts are not going to happen, or more importantly, unlikely to be forseen.

Many people are suggesting that China will implode within that timeframe and cease to be a nation that manufactures and exports goods cheaply, which is likely to have a huge impact to cost of living in the US.

Outside of China, there are other countries facing a similar population implosion, but are maybe not carrying so much debt. Regardless, it may be difficult to continue importing cheap semiconductors from places like South Korea, which may have a significant impact on the cost of computing devices to which we've all become accustomed to using.