Do you think that the billions of people who live in poverty around the globe listen to Bill Gates or any other billionaire???
And if anything, at least Bill Gates is trying to help with his foundation, unlike the other American billionaire ass-clowns.
Seriously, I can’t even. I’m going to leave this thread now.
No just the ones that have access to smartphones and are more naive…
Bill Gates has expressed some ideas in regards to overpopulation…which I disagree with…
Other billionaires also do have charities and foundations…who knows whether they truly want to do good…or if it’s just for appearances.
And i’ve even seen people post on here and others ramble on other social media platforms…in the past about thanos, overpopulation, and population control…
Tldr nature automatically self regulates…select humans don’t need to play god and decide for all of humanity.
Ok…going back to music and innernet sillyness…
It’s not just you. The slop influx has been pretty goddamn annoying tbh.
What am I doing? Meh…gonna unplug for a while.
Wanted to write something about which billionaires are worst and if it even makes sense to differentiate at that level, but since people are stressed and it’s the offtopic thread, I’m just gonna say that I spent all weekend working overtime on a project which stressed me out a lot, but then I went outside with my fam swimming today and it was very nice. So life is not all bad. Love you all and see you soon - I have to do more work even though it’s Sunday evening because I have to prepare some analyses for a work-related meeting on Monday, even though I’m officially in my holidays. 
Also, I bought some plugins I don’t have time to use to give me the feeling that I have time to be creative. 
Life is strange, trying to embrace it. 
Fertility is actually falling all over the world pretty rapidly. If anything it’s falling too fast for current political/economic systems to cope.
Not just in rich countries either. It has been understood for a while that post-industrial economies tend to see a reduction in fertility rate as women enter the workforce and delay having children. Also, less economic need outside of subsistence farming societies because extra children don’t contribute positive marginal labor when they are expected to be in school. Also as infant mortality falls, you need fewer children born as more of them will survive to reproductive age. All that is expected.
What is unexpected is that it is falling almost as rapidly in industrializing (think India, Brazil) and pre-industrial economies too (think most of Africa). Read that again. Fertility is falling all over the world, and the social scientists don’t know why. From a purely material perspective, well managed the world could support probably 12-15 BN people. As things are, we are on track to peak somewhere around 10-12BN late this century before heading into a decline, unless something changes fast.
There are classic economic schools (Malthus springs to mind) that posit that the population would hit a wall only when it ran out of ways to feed and medicate itself. And most economists accepted some form of that argument, with the arguments really being about what that number would be and why.
Now, it seems some force we haven’t accounted for is encouraging us as a species to stop expanding sooner. It’s actually a really interesting problem with no simple single solution. Or even broad agreement that it is in fact a problem.
Personally, I think when the whole world stops having kids at the same time, that tells you something isn’t right. My guess is that for various reasons around the world there’s just a lot of pessimism about the future right now (and it’s not unjustified). My theory is that people broadly will only have children if they feel that the children will be at least as well off as them, and right now around the world people don’t. Maybe that’s a new thing, we don’t really know. Looking at history, we don’t have hard data for the bronze age collapse or the fall of Rome, and the bubonic plague did decrease the world population slightly but that was due to illness, not a reduction in population growth. All other cases where we’re talking about population decline of anywhere near this magnitude are wars, and without exception they are more localized. So this is such a novel thing, the idea that the world population will be in a sustained decline for the first time in human history, that we don’t really know what is currently causing it.
I can say, it’s not necessarily a problem (though I think it IS a symptom), except for the fact that pension systems the world over were built with the assumption that population would continue to grow until it leveled off around the early 2100s. The fact that we may be shrinking before then is a financial/economic problem that will have to be addressed.
Thank you for the info…
Also…I spend way too much of my free time doomscrolling and looking at stupid internet stuff…and then reacting to that stuff…I’m gonna spend my free time more productively instead of engaging in/with the various nonsensical ego validation/defending ones pride driven factoid opinion blogcasts on social media…
Ok cool. Sophistry it is then. I honestly don’t think or contemplate about how cleverly worded shit i say is. It just comes out. Most of the time in a drunken stupor. Fuck it man, I’m just the same old vilage dipshit stumbling down the lane on a rainy night that gets hit by a car. My meager knowledge has happened before, happenstance.
My problem is that I read too much and think too fuckin much. Brain go fast. Can’t stop brain.
tldr- everyone needs to bang & pulling out is temporarily b&
If a pilot farts while crop dusting in one of those old single pilot planes…would that be considered as chemtrails.
Only if we count the emissions from the engine too.
And queefs
When the government takes care of you it can turn into controlling you real fast…
When you can take care of yourself…and the government doesn’t have to take care of you it’s a different story.
All the manosphere hating women grievance bullshit, the irony is that women birthed those guys.
The 9th wave feminist misandry…either no man can compare to their father or their father did a bad job.
Say the grievance hate shit in real life…most don’t have the balls and will be alienated from people.
So sick of the yt privilege and yt supremacy rhetoric…the modern rhetoric is a based off an argument rooted in straw man fallacies which is totally/completely separate from the actual irredeemable historical evils and atrocities.
It’s an ignorant tribalist envious hate fuck. It’s partially responsible for both sides excusing unethical antagonism towards each other.
You got one group of fools fighting another group of fools over this shit…
If both believe that they are absolutely righteous in their ideology…so fervently without question…then neither side is really righteous…
Tldr everybody needs Jesus.