yeah i guess, and i’m sorry for it. but there’s nothing i can do about it. i’m just sickened that everybody - whenever there’s any problem - jumps to concluding that it’s “russian” influence, or somehow else indirectly a consequence of russian influence. it keeps people from reflecting. i definitely do not encourage authoritarian regimes, but i hate that people don’t reflect and stubbornly repeat narratives that they are being fed by TV and other news. considering russia a country and talking isn’t “supporting”, it’s being diplomatic, and honestly, the world could use waay more of that. i don’t see how that’s a bad stance to have, maybe you educate me?

a normalization of world’s relations and an end to decades of hysteria would do us good

Old people is where that gets messy

… as long as you assume that retirement has to be paid for by the worker’s taxes.

Rich taxes would solve the problem well enough, i think.

It would be good to back that up with actual arguments.

Experts warn this decline could accelerate China’s demographic and economic challenges.

I’ll say it again. The labor market is a market.

Lower supply ==> higher price.

In the context of the labor market: Fewer workers ==> higher wages. That is good for the workers.

that feeling is called dissociation btw

Yeah well the US might have been founded as a colonial nation, but that doesn’t mean it has to stay that way forever.

Similar to how when there’s a new virus around, you might fall sick once or twice, but you’re expected to eventually recover and develop immunity to this particular virus. Similarly, the US immigrant population has literally overrun the country 300 years ago, but that does not mean that the mindset and the attitudes of that times are expected to stay around forever. Because honestly, they are a disease in many ways, if one considers many of the symptoms and side-effects.

Democracy is inherently tied to progress.

For a more elaborate explanation, see below.

I am considering that progress on Earth is slowing down or halting long-term, and only continued progress could sustain Democracy.

Democracy is tied to progress because progress creates demand for workers, and as such gives them a say in the direction things go. Progress is what “free people can do” or sth. Without progress, there is neither a demand for workers or freedom, and both are at risk.

The problem isn’t the boarder!!!

I agree with you on that. Unfortunately, it’s more complicated than that. Owning guns doesn’t necessarily lead to bad things happening, but it often does, because people are mentally stressed and exhausted. The problem is the poor living conditions many people are forced to live under. What would really help is some sort of social welfare. But i guess, the US has a lot of work to do before it gets there.

Export guns, import people.

An organized work force in the USA is wishful thinking. It could have happened any time in the last 150 years, it didn’t. I don’t see it happening now.

UBI is a temporary measure. While i agree with you, that it weakens the stance of the population, because they are dependent on welfare money, i’m still reasonably sure it’s way better than literally dying by starving to death. Because that’s what’s otherwise gonna happen.

The only true solution i see is reducing the population size. Supply and demand. If the workforce is smaller, wages are going to go up. The ethical options to do this is by being against migration, and giving women the option to have fewer children. But yeah, you can’t say that, or “leftists” will call you a racist, while Trumpeteers will call you a “baby-murderer”. So, i guess the USA is stuck.

i guess this depends on whether you see yourself as a person who deserves basic goods, or if you see yourself as a workforce who needs to be told what to do to be happy.

Well, this has been known for decades, the Club or Rome’s report (Limits of Growth) predicted this in the 1970s. Here’s a graphic from 2004:

We need UBI (Universal Basic Income) or people are going to not be able to afford basic commodities any more. We already see working poor, it’s gonna get worse. Demand UBI.

There was something like it between NATO and the USSR but Russia officially is not the successor to USSR so they have no claim to that guarantee.

Like, if you seriously believe that, you should check your reasoning skills.

This isn’t the ship of theseus. Not everything was exchanged. USSR changed one small thing which is its name and became Russia, that does not invalidate all prior agreements.

why, it can’t be that hard to produce ridiculous gibberish in any language.

And we will make America great again. I tell you, great. Great as it has never been before. We will make the Mexicans pay for it. And we will make the Panama Canal american again. American. Yes. Like it was when our constitution was founded. Great. Great Constitution. Great, I tell you. Have a nice day.

chaser behavior

she already said no, what the heck why are you still trying

The thing is you can’t treat starvation with medicine or hospital beds. The only thing that actually improves the situation is to supply food, lots of food.

The only true solution to this problem is that the so-called developed world starts dispatching lots and lots and lots of food to Gaza right now.

thanks, very well put. I’m not from India, but this explanation makes sense to me.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

more active workers than retirees.

Well, no, that’s actually incorrect. You only need enough productive output to sustain a social welfare system; if people’s productivity would increase to 10,000%, then 1% active workforce in the population could sustain up to 70% elderly people (assuming another 29% younger unproductive people).

It’s just that society chooses to skim off that additional wealth to some rich parasitical class.

Fear of decline

Edit: after reading the article, it’s about something else. Indian parlamentary seats depend on share of population, not on economic strengths, so some states worry to lose out.

Edit again: Well, no, my first instinct was right. The article is full of stupid people spitting hate at women for choosing to have fewer children. The article also seems to mostly think of offspring as future workforce, in other words slaves to the economy. The human population has been less than 1/1000 of what it currently is just a few thousand years ago (as can be seen in this diagram) and humanity prospered. I don’t see the problem.