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by throwaway6734 3y ago
Do you feel the same way about the bombings in Germany and Japan during WW2?
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
give the parents the money and let them decide what to do with it
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
It's not justification, but the reality. War is horrible and innocent people will always die in war.
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
Nations at war defend themselves by degrading the military might and desire to wage war of the enemy state. I find Israel's actions to be overly callous towards civilian death, but it's important to keep in mind that civilian deat
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
Refugees from Africa and the middle east have struggled to assimilate, require more state resources, and generally commit crimes at a higher rate than natives and immigrants from other areas.
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
completely agree. 3 years would be enough time for parents to string maternity leave across multiple children. Assuming a normal person works from 22 to 67, taking 6-9 years off to raise children is only 20% of that time at most. Culturally
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
massive population collapse will be disastrous for modern societies. Who will do the work required to care for the elderly population?
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
don't try to apply modern moral standards on historical figures
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
What's uncomfortable about it? Good people will have different opinions than you on controversial issues. Understanding that is the cornerstone of a tolerant liberal society. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
>The main thing I question about FIRE is...how many people can achieve FIRE and live off the stock market returns, essentially contributing very little to society, before society is unable to sustain the "parasitic" load they g
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
>And there is a heavy political and cultural interference, that is just not acceptable in Africa! Like what?
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
What country to you think has figured out how to care for their aging population? Most of Europe has incredibly low birthrates, an aging populaton, and low growth. The US is looking at massive social security and medicare shortfalls in a de
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
Yes of course
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
the biggest drag on the west right now is the excessive amount of resources that we allocate to the elderly. We funnel capital from young people to old to pay for drastically increasing healthcare costs while putting forward minimal effort
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
How do you figure? If more houses are built, prices will go down.
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
Look at the chart that op shared
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
>Which of these will be sustained in the next decades remains to be seen. I imagine that Europe's demographic issues are going to force something needing to give on the QoL side of things.
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
It's meaningless in that it doesn't describe a societal division that actually matters. A retail worker making 40k a year is not going to identify with a highly paid software engineer. Their life stresses are worlds apart as is th
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
>If you depend on a salary to make ends meet you're working class. Then its a meaningless phrase
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
you are deeply out of touch with how most americans live
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
>because it sounds like you're asking a question? all the time?). I've noticed this among a lot of leftist/Liberal podcasting as well (like Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, lot of NPR presenters). I don't understand it. it
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
If there is any genetic component to wanting children, this will hopefully work itself out over a few generations as the bloodlines of people that don't want children die off.
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
>And if that's hard for me as an overpaid tech worker, What's your salary compared to the median household income in your area? How do other people make it work?
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
People have lived through plague, famine, mass deaths caused by invasion, etc and still manage to raise and pass the torch to the next generation. Get over yourself.
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
Can you give some examples of other late empires?
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
I don't understand how it's possible to go from thousands a month in savings to almost none. That's at a minimum an extra 24k in spending. Sure prices have gone up but not that much
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
How? Where is all of your money going?
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
>No forced labor, no unpaid / barely paid labor. All work must be paid at least prevailing market rates Why? Someone needs to pay the cost to imprison people and it's unfair to not make the guilty party at least partially respo
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
what were you in prison for?
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by throwaway6734 3y ago
People should be judged relative to their time.

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