Frank wrote on Mar 6^th, 2024 at 7:33am:

It's too late to produce our own next generation in enough numbers to manage the current geriatric boomer blowout - that should have happened 40 years ago.

The Zoomers are an even smaller generation than the Millennials and show no signs of wanting to breed like rabbits to create a large post-Alpha generation.

A large-scale immigration program solves the current demographic skewering that has resulted from longer lives and fewer children.

Jasin wrote on Mar 6^th, 2024 at 8:00am:

Exactly.

Two (soon to be three) self-absorbed generations have produced a demographic blowout of over-60s that cannot be managed by internally-produced 20- to 40-somethings.

freediver wrote on Mar 5^th, 2024 at 11:28am:


So far so good....we have common ground; let's read on:

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eg  the 'shared belief' among some people that Palestine belongs to Jews makes the ownership real, according to you. 

Problem; this 'reality' can only be maintained  through continuous warfare, as we have seen for the last 75 years.   

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Think again....

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 5^th, 2024 at 11:57pm:


You ready to pay women to bear and raise kids?

MeisterEckhart wrote on Mar 6^th, 2024 at 8:41am:



Welfare in lieu of work is a disaster. Solution:

https://pavlina-tcherneva.net/the-case-for-a-job-guarantee/

The Case for a Job Guarantee

One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating social and economic costs of job insecurity. It is also false.

thegreatdivide wrote on Mar 6^th, 2024 at 8:49am:

Ironically, had Nixon not shot his presidency in the head, the likes of a Job Guarantee or UBI policy would have been a reality in the US and, by that, a reality across the Anglosphere.

Nixon was working closely with the likes of Ted Kennedy to develop their aligned political thinking on a fair economy.

Nixon and Johnson both imagined a great society where its citizens would not have want of basic needs including a quality education and job security.

Both were born in the early 20th century (members of the greatest generation), both came from humble beginnings, both saw the horrors of 2 world wars and an economic meltdown, and both had visions of building a societal utopia - with the devil waiting to inevitably manifest itself in the detail.

Johnson, for example, likely could not imagine a mother having throwaway kids for the welfare money his administration provided to free women from the yoke of absent and delinquent husbands.

thegreatdivide wrote on Mar 6^th, 2024 at 8:22am:


I recommend you try to understand that concept instead of trying to come up with an argument against it because you are frightened of it. You cannot learn unless you stop talking.

Do you understand how money can have real value only if there is a shared belief in that value?

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 6^th, 2024 at 10:12am:

It is an obvious reality, which we all learn from a very early age, that unearned income cannot be as valued as that which is earned by effort.

It's why we admire those who started with nothing and earned a fortune by hard work and secretly resent people who win large sums of money.