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ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
8m ago
Guy writes fun short story.
Who? Where?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
11m ago
... and decrease even as it's GDP is increasing. This is true especially if we assume the liberal theories on the benefits of free trade and immigration are correct.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
24m ago
I don’t think it’s quite the mainstream position in the right-leaning spaces. They might nod along with “evil” or “ideologically possessed” (which started with JBP, I think) but I don’t think, aside from mocking college students and wine moms that they call liberals stupid.
Arguably, low social cohesion would manifest in a less cooperative and thus less productive society with more defectors and worse tragedies of the commons, thus lower GDP. Lower life expectancy could then be downstream from that, in addition to lower social cohesion probably making people less happy and unhappiness is unhealthy in general.
OTOH, I suppose one can (and I would) argue that a society can be cohesive even when its GDP and life expectancy decrease due to reasons unrelated to social or cultural questions (e.g., for reasons of hard economics), and that these metrics are only partially downstream of and partially orthogonal to social cohesion.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
32m ago
Everything. GDP, murder rate, life expectancy, etc.
I can give you the murder rate, what do the rest have to do with social cohesion?
Tree
35m ago
If you disagree, give me the metrics by which you judge social cohesion, peace and prosperity to be increasing, and we can discuss it.
Everything. GDP, murder rate, life expectancy, etc.
Blues are on the back foot because we Reds dealt them a crippling and humiliating electoral defeat.
And you were saying this wouldn't happen, they made sure you could never ever win, they stole the election etc. Life’s too short for me to spend it assuaging your incoherent fears of doom.
Some concept work, some coding. No great accomplishments; just some basic refactoring to make working with Unreal C++ a little less painful. Working my way out of some Unreal problems, while failing to solve others. Not much, but I'm happy just go get anything at all done.
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