Ioper
1d ago
And I am not sure how you'd convince all the women who currently enjoy massive privileges to live their lives free of any real 'obligations' to accept having 3 kids each to bring things back on track, when they can simply vote for a regime that will support them regardless.
This feels like a false dichotomy. Most people are having children and that we just need to shift people towards having very marginally more children. Not going from 0->3. Women's incentives as a group if anything go the other way, since the vast majority are having children, "punishing" defectors should be an easy sell if packaged right.
Ioper
1d ago
Yes, food isn't evenly distributed between population and polities.
If what you really wanted to say was that British food is kind of meh then I'm on board.
Ioper
2d ago
So if you exclude half of western food and squint hard it's not very good outside of fine dining?
Ioper
3d ago
Having 4 kids in a 5 year time span is pretty hardcore though, you don't have to do it like that.
Ioper
3d ago
I'm assuming he refers to involuntary celibacy which was high for a hot moment but which has now gone down to historic levels.
The major issue here is that people aren't doing things to "help", they're doing it out of a narcissistic desire to defend their mental world view. That is what they really care about, material reality be damned.
They intentionally look away when their "efforts to help" produce the opposite of the their stated intentions and use all their mental prowess to justify their atrocities.
It's almost never that the bad effects couldn't have been reasonably predicted, it's that people actively avoided doing so because it threatened their self conception and world view.
I'd go as far as to say that this is one of the foundational building blocks of evil.
People say having kids is really hard but i strongly disagree with that. It's pretty easy, your life is just different.
If you're hellbent on travelling and partying then, yes, it's going to be hard, but if you're intending to care for your kids it's pretty easy, especially if your not trying to force them to become something they're not.
I think an issue is that some people don't actually want to have kids and they whine loudly and incessantly, with some other parents jumping on the bandwagon for clout. In my friend group there is one person that's actually had a hard time and a fair bit of that is self inflicted, and none of us were really aiming to have kids. In reality almost every single parent I know (including myself) are very satisfied with being parents.
Don't let the whine brigade fool you into thinking having kids is some kind of herculan endeavour, it's not.
Ioper
5d ago
I mean... They would have to grow by more than 15% per year, which is well above the growth rate of any Asian tiger, never mind at Polands current gdp. It's also more than twice the growth rate than Poland has ever had...
Ioper
6d ago
Same as literal monkeys. There are few things simpler than using a smartphone to consume slop.
Something to note is that that only covers the "city of Amsterdam", metropolitan Amsterdam is more th 3x as big and most people dont seem to raise children in the "city" as by far the most common demo living there are 25-35yos.
I'd imagine this is mostly an effect of misleading statistics. The ethnic Dutch raise their kids in the suburbs while ethnic minorities do so in social housing/ethnic ghettos, leading to a them having a disproportionate share of the children in the "city".
It's most likely the case that Amsterdam is getting less Dutch ethnically but it's probably not going quite as fast as the stats would seem to suggest, and I'm not sure how much space there is for an increase in ethnic change given housing constraints.
I watch at 1x but I skip around a lot.
As for the guy you linked, I don't have any issues understanding him at 1.75x but at 2x it gets exhausting. I wouldn't know how that compares to other videos though since I usually only watch in 1x.
Ioper
12d ago
It seems to me that all central banks and almost every economist under the sun wants inflation.
What you want is for the cost of things to go up but for productivity to go up even faster.
Ioper
12d ago
That wasn't really why they were elected though, since it wasn't much if a salient issue. The overriding political issue was the extremely severe financial crisis and the financial mismanagement by the social democrats, not anything else.
They were elected as combination of being a protest party, general (rightwing) economic populism and anti-immigration.
That said, there were definitely problems with crime and the great Nordic biker war started in '94.
Ioper
21d ago
Muslim fertility in the west is below replacement if one looks at the children they have once they're actually here. No one is having a ton of kids outside of small religious extremist groups and the vast majority of Muslims do not fall into that category.
Ioper
21d ago
I got that :)
I've already read MoL but Ar'k is new to me and I'll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!
Ioper
22d ago
Ok, thanks for the info! I might check it out and see if its for me but that wasn't really a ringing endorsement ;)
Ioper
22d ago
Just test drive one.
Important things to consider is how widespread the charger network is in your area, your ability to charge at home and/or at work and what you use the car for. The value of an electric car depends as much on those things as the car itself. It's probably a good idea to ask people around you who have electric cars how much or little of an issue this is.
I'm personally not a fan of Tesla due to design choices and lackluster build quality but it's much better for you to test it yourself than relying on online people to tell you what to think.
Ioper
23d ago
This kind of thing happens all the time with non-political things as well. I don't think there is any coordination, these people just move in the same circles, talk about generalised ideas together and then develop them independently.
Additionally, it someone sees something doing well they'll go around shoppong for some semi-finished production that they can rush to completion to get in on the craze.
There are also the numerous recent scandals...
But yes, I agree motivation pays a very important role in the results of the EU elections given the low turnout. Which I feel is an underdiscussed part of these elections.
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