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  • It’s immoral to leech off other people’s children tax money, sure.

    But also no one wants to be a sucker doing 20+ years of unpaid labor raising kids, so someone else 's S&P 500 keeps growing and sustains a very comfortable retirement plan, and no one will even help you with raising kids anymore.

    It’s really the system’s fault, not individuals. It makes it lucrative for every individual human to give as little back, and take as much from everyone else.




  • History ended sometime around 1990. It was determined at that time that civilization could not substantially change any further, for better or worse

    Life did get substantially worse since 1990 though?

    Mass surveillance, rise of tech billionaire class, unprecedented political polarization, KYC-rollout in banks.

    Ecological crisis is accelerating with tens of thousands of dead in Europe due to recent heatwaves.

    edit: also Germany, Japan, Russia and China openly remilitarizing after 80 years of relative peace. This is really bad.


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    1 month ago

    62% home ownership in 1960’s for much smaller homes (on average 700 sqft) vs 65% now for an average of 2000sqft

    62% -> 65% sounds reasonable.

    700 sqft on average -> 2000 sqft on average is suspicious though. It’s possible stats got skewed by the top 1%, who are today richer than ever before, and own ridiculous amount of property. Median sqft perhaps would be more representative