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You could increase population growth by not screwing millennials at every step of their life. If housing, school, food, cars didn’t cost substantially more in i
by voisin 6y ago
You could increase population growth by not screwing millennials at every step of their life. If housing, school, food, cars didn’t cost substantially more in inflation adjusted dollars than it did for their parents, or if their incomes at least caught up to inflation.
- alecco 6y agoA culture of hedonism and postponing starting a family to your 30s is way more significant. I'm not against it, but an extended adolescence has its social consequences.
- voisin 6y agoAre you suggesting millennials are choosing to delay household and family formation in favour of hedonism?
- aaomidi 6y agoThe typical boomer view on life. While they made enough money to pay for school by delivering pizza. Warren Buffet made serious amount of cash as a high schooler delivering news papers.
- alecco 6y agoAd-hominem. And misdirected, I'm far from a boomer. How many women want to start a family on their early 20s? How many women start working on that only when getting close to 30?
- ajurna 6y agoso it's womens fault? maybe if pay and conditions were better and they had more stability they would want families earlier.
- danaris 6y agoIn general, taking long-term views toward priorities of incentives would help a great deal, as opposed to the "gotta-meet-next-quarter's-numbers" priorities we have now. I don't know how exactly to get there (I have a variety of ideas about things we should be doing differently as a society, but none that specifically address the level of short-term thinking we are plagued by), but we definitely need to do something about it.
- voisin 6y agoI’d love to hear your ideas. Side note: is there a subreddit or other forum for people to share and debate big picture ideas about what we should be doing differently as a society? Seems different ideas are debated in different places but I haven’t found a single place where ideas can be debated, voted upon, ranked, etc.
- danaris 6y agoI mean, honestly, they're nothing particularly new or noteworthy; they're a collection of progressive ideas you've probably heard a lot, starting with universal basic income and single-payer universal health care. As far as fixing our corporate culture, I think making judicious but expressive use of the corporate death penalty, combined with aggressive enforcement of antitrust laws, using a much broader metric of harm than has been used in the past few decades, would be a good start. I also think that a true universal basic income—one that would allow someone with no other source of income to live safely, if not luxuriously, in most parts of the country—would slowly but surely start having huge effects on nearly every aspect of work, as removing the constant fear of homelessness and death from poverty made the "labour market" much more like a genuine free market. I can only begin to imagine the shifts in our society that that would result in, and it's really hard to say just what other measures would be rendered unnecessary by them.