So nice to have our professional victim posting regularly again.....insert eye roll.

 

Okay, then why does he keep bringing up how good everyone has it today? It doesn’t strengthen his argument. It weakens it.

 

"Hey you've had it so good for these past couple of years, you can afford for me to p!ss on your cereal for my benefit. Like it's just two years man don't be so greedy!"

We all know how these dudes would react if a millennial or younger pilot said he would to change an industry wide regulation just because they "wanted" to...

 

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Does a person still have it made if they’re furloughed next year? How much warning would they have to prep for zero income vs 58 hours?

Perspective: only needed if you don’t agree with JB….

 

Absolute banger of a post, but just on this:

Mass population decline in modern countries is a vastly unappreciated problem.

The WSJ had a great v-blog article about China depopulation trends. Loosely summarized as the 4-2-1 problem, if 4 grandparents have 2 total kids, and those 2 have a single child, you eventually have one child who’ll be responsible for caring for the 6 elderly relatives above him/her, and they’ll be unlike to have children of their own as the demands of life become too great. The economy and maintaining an industrial economy becomes impossible.

https://youtu.be/gmehUgOy5ok

It’s a worldwide phenomenon in developed countries; when given the choice, people choose not to have kids for whatever reason. Government programs of all kinds to reverse this have marginal impact, if any.

China, South Korea, Japan, and much of Europe are in this pickle. US leans heavily on immigration, with some notable sub-cultures who continue to do well.

 

When you read articles like this, doesn't portend to much success in the immediate future for biological family creation:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/r...cial-contagion

 

I will not lament the end of a social and economic order built upon unending growth. Bring on the pyramid inversion

 

Geniuses win Nobel prizes in their 50's and 60's for stuff they figured out in their 20's. Young people are innovators. Unfortunately, it takes 399 people like me to birth one genius (statistically speaking).

We have fewer young people because we have made it so damn hard for young people to get a family started. Places like Harvard, with a $51 billion endowment, should be using that $$ to educate people. Being exclusive is exactly the wrong path to take if the good of our economy and future are at stake. Housing, NIMBY'ism, and a tax code that punishes workers. We need to make it easier to start families.

Can you imagine the outrage if we developed a drug that surely increased life expectancies by 15 years, tripled a person's income, their choices of mates and quality of life; then restricted it to 2.4% of the richest, or most entitled? Education is that drug.

Instead of paying off student debt we should offer colleges grants for 1) increasing student acceptance by 10% yearly, including, 2) qualified trade school programs and 3) cutting tuition 10% a year. In less than two Presidential terms we would have doubled the educational output of our nation. Such an action would be more popular than anything Congress is up to by trying to keep us on the payroll and off entitlements (that we paid for).

If nothing else, people are our customers. We need 'em.

 

Fewer buyers for your equities & labor ....

 

The problem is it may be popular to the masses but to certain extreme factions, it enables lazy people and government suckling. Both sides are in the business of gate keeping right now.