In the past, children were your labor force, health care and pension plan. People had many children so at least some survived into adulthood. There wasn’t much alternative back in the day.
Now children are a net cost. They can’t even take care of you in old age if government pensions or retirement plans don’t pan out because many can barely feed themselves.
So, the best time to have children was roughly before 1900. That’s when things started to change.
Am I the only one here that checks the new releases weekly to filter and mark the interesting stuff to see in advance?
You’d think by now Jean-Luc Picard would be a well known example and systems are able to deal with it.
Yeah, this is his daughter
“We call her Carrie, because of the carriage return.”
You can also try to give the child NULL as middle name for additional fun.
In my mind, this is the only correct backdrop for that bowl.
What you say is correct and is also what is happening. Some have no children, some one of two. The end is fertility rate below replacement rate. Many people that want children stop at 2 because then it becomes too hard to combine with a job and costs too much. If there government wants more children, support is needed.
Pay women a decent wage per child, like a good part of the average wage per child until the child turns 18. That’ll be a clear incentive to get children. Everything else is just ineffective tinkering. In a classic rural setting children were a labor force. In a modern urban setting they’re a very expensive hobby with lots of unpaid labor. In a quid pro quo world, pay up. Children are not free. If that’s not possible then a growing population is not economically viable in the current system. Better luck in the next system.
Some regimes have tried to force the issue, banning all abortions and contraceptives. The end result was a population that was shrinking more slowly and orphanages overflowing because children were dumped as people didn’t have enough money to support them.
The only winning move is not too buy
Alright, what are the best options for blocking mentions of Trump? Last term there was so much noise from that guy or about him.
There are plenty other wacko ways people got themselves in the hospital if that’s your kink. The one with the girl that overdosed on gummies because she wanted spicy food was fun.
“But he tells it like it is!” they say.
Then you listen Trump giving s speech and telling 4 outright lies in the first 3 rambling sentences.
USA is a country with a lot of inequality, if not rising inequality, so a fertile breeding ground for populists. And it has an ancient voting system that always gives a two party system so perfect for this kind of polarisation. The system with campaign contributions will also make sure nothing changes about inequality and is making things worse. Yeah, it’ll happen again.
Sounds like a good time to rewatch the Tom Scott video about timezones and the descent into madness again
Those that keep shooting dogs whenever they go?
UK, where Stonehenge is located, switched a week ago. USA switches first Sunday of november. Europe switches last Sunday of October. There’s typically one week of confusing meeting hours in between. Some regions in the world don’t switch at all or still on other times. It’s a bit of a mess.
So many.
Normal people get slammed into a wall by monster, explosion or whatever, stand up and walk away. Buddy, you don’t walk that off. People die or need months of recovery from less.
Don’t get me started on the speed force. You do some napkin math and see the Flash is taking on a 1000G running in circles close to mach 2 without blinking and then gets knocked unconscious with a single punch in the next scene. Flash is not the only one of course.
And the lone inventor developing a fully conscious AI in some mountain cabin on an old laptop. It was clear that would never work and reality now shown us AI companies looking into nuclear powered data centers to speed up things.
So you don’t get launched out the window and then crushed by your own car for the non-semi accidents.
That’s a City Slickers grade humor.