saintvlad

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by saintvlad 3mo ago
> You do need to be able to afford to care for them and be reasonably capable of providing them with a stable and healthy environment to grow up in though. You kinda don't though? The government won't let you starve to death. S
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by saintvlad 3mo ago
That's the neat part! You don't have to care. It will either way. But it's not looking great for liberalism (and that's good thing).
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by saintvlad 3mo ago
> Women change their entire bodies, sacrifice years of their lives, and go through considerable stress to have a baby. "Humans extinct, women most affected" Pretty amusing how it's always framed as some terrible burden on
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by saintvlad 3mo ago
> we seem to be running out of transformative capacity to keep building essential stuff like housing in many countries Eh, I think we all know that we could build the housing if we really wanted to. > This just seems self correcting t
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by saintvlad 3mo ago
FWIW, I think we all (I am including myself here) underestimate the degree to which our beliefs are formed by the culture we inhabit.
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by saintvlad 3mo ago
I mean "capacity" isn't some magic barrier. Usually it involves increased chances for the organism in question to starve to death due to reduced availability of food. We don't seem to be that close to reaching that.
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by saintvlad 3mo ago
> more taxes are needed Don't forget it's not just taxes, but the allocation of labor and resources. If the entire population magically turned 90 tomorrow, no amount of taxes would be able to provide for them.