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Depends on the area. Lots of countryside areas have high unemployment statistically, but are actually very chill because there are so few people, and most of them are retirees. With adequate internet connectivity they can be perfect for remote workers.

"Work ethics" = Spending the best years of your life doing something you don't like, just to make shareholders richer while you remain relatively poor.

As an extreme example we have South Korea, which is essentially a dying society with fertility rate of less than 1. So no, "work ethics" as understood in East Asia is not a good thing for society or individual.

Yes, lots of giants for a country with GDP lower than that of Italy. Perhaps they refer to the bellies of the oligarchy that owns the companies.

There absolutely is a black market for selling airplane parts to sanctioned countries. As an example, Cuban state airline Cubana has been flying ATR turboprops with American made engines (and many other parts) since 2002 or so. Even with wide sanctions, Iran has maintained an operational fleet of old Boeings, and during past decade even newer aircraft.

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/31395-here-is-how-iran-sm...

The potential huge impact of climate change could very well start the nuclear war. Masses of hungry, broke and desperate people don't do good for politics as we've seen again and again in the past. One can only hope that they turn against corporations and the 1% instead of electing fascists.

Living in inner city might make you a social hub if you're an extroverted person in the first place. For an introvert like me it didn't make much of a difference, though I did find a spouse, which probably wouldn't have happened in the countryside.

I think everyone should move away at some point of their life, but permanent city-life isn't for everyone. I simply enjoy gardening, small-scale farming, tinkering and trekking in forests way more than any services cities offer.

Apart from farming, there is an obvious source of income - tourism services for urban people who want to relax in a more peaceful environment. Lots of old and small farms in my country have moved to that after farming wasn't profitable anymore.

Also, there's something beetween between big city suburbs and middle of nowhere. Smaller towns can offer a healthy amount of jobs and services, especially ones that are within commute distance from larger ones. Moving from a village/town of 4000 people to one of 140 000 didn't really change my daily life much, apart from having more variety of food in supermarket, and much more expensive and worse housing.

How exactly is Reddit a "porn filled shit hole"? I don't see any porn in the vast majority of subreddits. Nobody forces you to visit the rest, and they are typically even marked adult-only.

Besides, are porn and racism really the only questionable things in social media? What about extreme violence, videos where real people get shot or blown up? Somehow messed up American society thinks that violence is quite okay thing for people to see, but nudity and porn are not.

Elm has lots of great ideas, but if I were making decisions in a company, I wouldn't use it in production for anything big and long-living. Simply too much of a risk in terms of support, and finding developers with experience using it.

Only contacts I've had about Elm positions have been about rewriting existing Elm apps to something else.

Software devs may always move somewhere with lower living costs. Good for lots of people who have been forced to move into places like Silicon Valley with crazy expensive housing, even though they would rather live elsewhere.

I think one would have to be mad to love many ordinary software jobs out there. Being a cog in the machine, with average salary, and a job to maintain boring legacy apps, now that really doesn't sound fun to me. It might be a decent job, but not something to love.

Studying AND "living a little" at the same time isn't that hard with all the exchange programs EU universities provide. Traveling within Europe is also very cheap. It's mainly just an excuse for people who don't want children that much, which is now more common due to cultural changes as well.

Expensive housing on the other hand is a real problem. Requiring a long degree for nearly everything is also dumb.

Here in Finland we have generous paternity leave that people aren't afraid to use, yet birth rates are very similar to Japan. IMO it's partially cultural, but also lack of stability in employment, having to spend too many years studying useless degrees and expensive housing (compared to wages) in cities contribute.

I think the sensible model is to eventually get rid of most car traffic in city centres, and concentrate the parking spots in suburbs, with adequate public transport to denser areas.

Personally I couldn't live without a car. Not because I need it much in the city right now, but because I need it to reach my relatives and meaningful places in the countryside, far away from any public transport. Cost of living is also something to consider, not everyone can afford a proper house within reach of public transport, and living in a flat sucks.

Bike theft is a big problem at least here in Finland, especially for expensive bikes.

For a long time to come there are lots of physical tasks that AI can't do, at least not as long as robots are nowhere near humans in their physical ability. At the same time the world is aging, and there's a big shortage of care workers in most countries. By nature that work also benefits from genuine human interaction and emotion.

So, to me an obvious solution would be to employ many of those people as care workers. Even more obvious would be shortening the work-week without reducing pay, which would allow many more to work in other physical labour requiring professions, and those that simply benefit from human interaction. In the end it's also a preferable outcome for companies, people without money can't buy their products / services.

Defunding of old people's homes (and lack of staff) seems to be a problem in my here in FInland as well. Elders who aren't in good enough condition to live alone end up just flooding ER rooms. Nurses visiting at home may be cheaper, but it's not a working solution for everyone.

I don't know about Japan, but sometimes older buildings may be genuinely better built than newer ones, which is a rational reason to value them in additional to historical value. The "expected service life" of a building greatly depends on how it was built and maintained. In my country even plenty of wooden houses from 1800s are still around, while modern ones from the 70's are often demolished due to mold problems caused by bad architecture of the time. 2000's apartments tend to to be pretty bad as well because of greed, they lack space and have impractical floor plans & general lack of quality.

The list of "very safe airlines" there has lots of Western airlines. Having no history of accidents does not equal being safe, actually useful measure is number of accidents per flight hours (and even that is only useful for big airlines).

Anyway, even something like Qatar is fairly safe. To avoid REALLY unsafe airlines one should consult this list https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/eu-air-safet...

Safety and customer experience are two different things that may not correlate much most of the time. I'll rather have top quality pilots and maintenance than friendliest flight attendants if I have to choose between two.

Almost crashing your airplane is always a major incident in commercial aviation.

I wouldn't mind getting fired if I worked for a corporation that can't even provide proper screens for employees. Not getting equipment from employer is only acceptable for startups low on cash.

Exactly. It's entirely employer's responsibility to provide tools and equipment for the work, except perhaps stuff that you can keep, like tables, chairs and screens for home office. Only freelancers/entrepreneurs should pay for something like ChatGPT with their own money.

There's a good chance AI and robotics can replace a big portion of human workforce. If that happens, then the high ratio of old people to young is no longer a problem.

Only works as a temporary solution. Eventually you'll run out of wage-slaves even if you hire from the entire planet as young people can't afford having children with those salaries.

What if shareholders were happy with a bit less money, and companies used that money instead to provide a decent wage? Seems more sustainable to me than mass migration of the working poor.

You could also take a look at used fanless thin clients from HP and such. Cheap, totally silent, still fairly low electricity consumption but more power.

If we look at recent advances in AI there's a good chance that many of the high-paying jobs you're jealous of might be automated away before lower-paying physical labour and such. Education is not the pathway to success it used to be IMO, not for most students anyway.

You also shouldn't judge yourself based on how "productive" you are in terms of the current (and doomed) capitalist system, or how much money you can earn, or what degrees you have. Try find things other than money in life, things that make you happy. Perhaps also read some stoic philosophy. Worrying about things that are beyond your control is waste of time, and stuff like IQ is exactly one such thing. Also ensure you're doing enough exercise. Even if you don't like physical labour, the fact is humans were made to move, not to sit down all the time. I didn't do much exercise at all until my mi 20s and yet it made a huge difference once I started regular running.

I studied CS, have a degree and work in the field and I most certainly couldn't pass a FAANG interview ever. Economically I would be better off had I just studied something like nursing after high school. It's my family and certain physical hobbies that bring way more content to my life than education and work ever will. I could be very unhappy if I compared myself to other, more "successful" people all the time. But I don't bother. Eventually we all die and then we're all equal. Ultimately money doesn't bring happiness even in this life. 100 years ago people had much less material good, much less opportunities but yet they weren't any less happy on average. They were just busy doing whatever physical labour they could get to bring food on the table. That's what evolution really has made us for, not staring a screen indoors all the time. Studying CS taught me that what I really want is a small farm in middle of nothing and minimum amount of computer time. Maybe what you want is something different, but it probably more than just education, money and work. Trying out new things out of your comfort-zone is the only way to find out what you really like (and don't like).

Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are doing great really, even if the Polish government is anti-EU sometimes. According to latest statistics Estonia has better education system, economic growth and birth rate than Finland. The rate at which these countries have catch up is amazing.

What I'm most worried of now are old, historically rich countries in decline, like Italy and Spain.

Guess what keeps those black neighbourhoods poor? Lack of progressive taxation, which also impacts poor people of all other colors as well, including whites.

Many Americans are obsessed with race, but really the main source of inequality is money these days. Fix the money issue and all poor people will benefit, including minorities. Take more money from the rich and use it to fund public services, education regardless of people's skin color.

Now, obviously black people are poor because of historical actions which might count as "white supremacy" (like trans-atlantic slave trade), but you don't fix the issue by blaming white people, you fix it by taxing the rich.