Labor Shortage 8

That little difference is extremely significant. Where the baby boom was a good deal larger than its predecessor generation (The Silent Types), the Gen Y boomlet is virtually a one for one replacement. The economy had to grow to accommodate boomers and boomer women.

The economy has to stay the same size to accommodate the Gen Y cohort. So, where Boomers faced hierarchical institutions caused by their numbers, the new group sees shallow organizations with limited hierarchy.

In the old system, it was always (for 100,000 years) the case that there were more young people than old people. The baby boom was the biggest case of this. Lots of eager baby boomers competed for every job opening.

Today, there's more or less one worker for each job. There are the same number of old people as young people. Cooperation is vastly more important than individual competition.

From here, it looks like the flat world is a function of demographics, not technology.

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