throwaway6734

Do you feel the same way about the bombings in Germany and Japan during WW2?

give the parents the money and let them decide what to do with it

It's not justification, but the reality. War is horrible and innocent people will always die in war.

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 death was inevitable once the government of Gaza decided to invade Israel and intentionally target civilians.

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.

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 we need to make it much easier for women to leave and re-enter the workforce and to also work part time.

massive population collapse will be disastrous for modern societies.

Who will do the work required to care for the elderly population?

don't try to apply modern moral standards on historical figures

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.

>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 generate?

I wonder how many of these people are even factoring changing demographics. As the population continues to age, retirement is going to get even more expensive because labor will continue to cost more and more

>And there is a heavy political and cultural interference, that is just not acceptable in Africa!

Like what?

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 decade.

Yes of course

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 to ensure young people can start families.

Anecdotally, my family's health insurance (early 30s, 1 child; mostly paid for by my employer; 2k a month) costs more monthly than our mortgage (1600 a month). Not to mention the money that we pay into social security and Medicare.

How do you figure?

If more houses are built, prices will go down.

Look at the chart that op shared

>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.

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 their level of financial security.

You're the one trying to divide and conquer by pushing an abstract, out of touch political ideology that has resulted in the deaths of millions

>Edit: I also noticed that usually your comments don't really add much to discussions on HN, could you change that behaviour a little bit, please?

Right back at you comrade!

>If you depend on a salary to make ends meet you're working class.

Then its a meaningless phrase

you are deeply out of touch with how most americans live

>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 sounds unserious

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.

>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?

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.

Can you give some examples of other late empires?

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

How? Where is all of your money going?

>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 responsible for that cost

what were you in prison for?

People should be judged relative to their time.