[quote=Dinh AaronMk]
We can't accurately project economic patterns into the future very well here, given the advent of technologies like 3d printing that have the power to cause great shifts in the economic stability of any nation. You got a rising unemployed sector as high-skilled, college-supported jobs turn more and more competitive as the factors turn over to increasingly automated manufacturing processes. And all the sudden, we're probably looking at a situation where a single factory opening in a small town won't nearly have the same economic impact as it once did, they'd be a smaller employer.And for the sake of having a Third World War we'd probably have to keep it. With the European Union gone - or potentially long gone by war's beginning - there'd need to be a reason to explore the break down of the Eurozone economy.I also don't think Boerd's been accepted. I know I have disagreements with his nation and raised the ones over the Shetland and Orkney islands. But Duck's never said anything official.
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What Eurozone economy? All I see is a piece of crap someones painted in gold and said 'Good Enough' xD
In all seriousness though, while I don't think 3D printing it going to have anywhere near the effect people seem to be worrying about (It'll be a shift, yes, but it's not going to flip the entire worlds economy like people are saying. The rich countries will still be rich and the poor countries will still be poor), it's pretty hard to predict how an economy will change though, and anything after 5 years is almost certain to be wrong.