Towards a world with much more conflict

Significant structural changes in the functioning of today’s economies are under way : Acute hiring difficulties in OECD countries as a result of changing attitudes among wage earners; Scarcity of energy, other commodities and semiconductors and strong demand for transport, driving up the prices of all these goods and services; Inflation, which stems from the scarcities and the reaction of wages. These structural changes will lead to an increase in conflict: Between countries for access to commodities; Between commodity-producing and -importing countries; Between wage earners and companies for income distribution and for the degree of wage-price indexation; Between wage earners and governments, to support purchasing power; Between companies, to recruit wage earners.