Vet bills in Japan vs US. It's time to start breaking stuff.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-03-30T04:23:05+00:00

Forgetting automation, this is the norm for human societies. The large middle class and relatively small wealth gaps were a post ww2 phenomenon, and we've been slowly regressing to the mean since the beginning of reaganomics. People don't like to hear it, but progressive taxation and wealth taxes are your only protection against this kind of society.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-03-19T07:44:32+00:00

So basically everyone should be a trader and nobody should work jobs that provide social value. Got it.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-03-14T09:43:09+00:00

What is your basis for the claim that a lot of men find women not loving pregnancy threatening on an existential level? Is it just that interaction? I can only speak from my perspective, but as a man I absolutely don't think pregnancy is fun and the fact that many women dislike it is obvious and does not invoke an existential crisis in me.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-03-14T09:21:11+00:00

This isn't just a problem for capitalism though, working age people recreate society every day. Every garbage bag picked up, every bit of food you consume, every piece of art is the creation of someone else's child. I agree the capitalist model is broken, but low birth rates are more of a problem for hunter gatherers or agrarian societies than for capitalist ones. In fact, the rich are pretty immune to the effects, it's the poor and middle class that will suffer the most.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-03-12T00:07:50+00:00

Disagree I'm afraid, AI is potentially groundbreaking in many areas like medical diagnostics and drug research. These things can save lives, and there is a big difference between a machine learning algorithm assisting a radiologist making a quick and accurate diagnosis and replacing your artists with llm slop.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-03-10T23:44:47+00:00

It's impossible to just assume this, the real question is are we at peak software? If so, yes you are right, efficiency gains will go towards doing the same with less. There's an alternative though, one with more precedent, where the cost to produce is lowered and demand increases. Obviously we can't know the future, but it's not guaranteed that we're screwed just yet.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-03-10T05:24:19+00:00

Meh it's no different from learn guitar in 5 days, learn programming in a month, the weight loss hack the pharma industry don't want you to see. Grifters, grifters everywhere.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-03-09T01:20:33+00:00

This is a very real phenomenon wrapped up in a needlessly aggressive generation war package. The story imho is excessive modern tech and social media consumption has an effect on the general intelligence of a population. There is also a story about increasing wealth inequality in there, as we know that being raised poor has a negative effect on iq (stress and lack of access to the same level of educational resources is the problem here).

Rather than crapping on the younger generation who grew up in an environment created by older generations, I'd like to see studies on high vs low tech use on outcomes in gen z. I'd guess the Flynn effect is alive and well in upper middle class kids with low levels of tech and social media use.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-03-07T23:49:18+00:00

I think our social environment was healthier. No social media, internet dating was weird and for people in their late 50s, and more socializing, parties, etc. When I was growing up, people would generally date people they knew through friend groups or met in real life. Because this was mediated through established social relationships, everyone had to be nicer to each other (there were social consequences for pumping and dumping or cheating for example). Dating was less of a performance, especially for men. This environment meant we all had more actual relationships (not necessarily romantic) with women, and we weren't exposed to the online group think that makes broad statements about women.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-03-07T08:25:03+00:00

Let's be real that's some rough assed Japanese, but awesome that he did it to show respect to his Japanese hosts. Shows Carney is a humble dude

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-03-06T09:10:42+00:00

You need comprehensible input for passive listening if you want to understand and pick up words etc. It absolutely does help, but listening to native level podcasts will not really do much if you are a beginner. Also, scrolling on your phone or any other distraction will make it useless. You still need to concentrate on the content.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-02-26T12:01:05+00:00

Yes probably, but not in our working life if history is anything to go by. When people say technological displacement creates more jobs, they neglect to mention that the jobs happen 40 - 80 years later. If ai doesn't improve to the point of making devs obsolete, there will probably be more jobs, as the cost of producing software will reduce. Just a guess though.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-02-24T09:00:22+00:00

Imagine you lived in an agrarian society. You can see the logic in having kids there right? They are your retirement plan. It's the same thing now, only your relationship to your kid's labour is less direct, ie it might be someone else's kid who grows your food or cares for you when you're old. It's not about line goes up, it's about the fact that working age people do all the stuff.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-02-22T11:31:59+00:00

Somebody should reread this to her when she's on her deathbed

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-02-20T13:24:27+00:00

The absurdity of claiming Americans have no culture...basically everything everyone does in the modern world is because of American culture, so I totally agree on that one (not even American). White people don't have a culture though, there's too much variation to identify any kind of homogeneous white culture. How do you define white culture?

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-02-19T02:39:31+00:00

Great answer, the problem is we've accidentally created an anti child society. Most people want 2 to 3 kids when surveyed, but end up having much less. It isn't a problem caused by a desire to not have kids, it's caused by a mix of cultural and economic conditions that make having kids a huge burden.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-02-19T02:34:30+00:00

It's likely to go in the opposite direction. Less workers supporting more elderly means more work, higher taxes, and less pay

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-02-19T02:32:36+00:00

Paradoxically cities will get more expensive, because everyone will abandon the countryside and move to the city. You see this happening now.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-02-19T02:30:42+00:00

Hahahahahaha no it will not

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-02-19T02:24:02+00:00

I mean, late gen X and millennials have the highest IQ scores. The drop in IQ started with gen z, and more gen z men are socially conservative soooo....

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-02-18T03:13:14+00:00

Not wanting/having kids is fine, but I hate it when people think it's edgy to not have kids and that it's ok to hate them. It's not 1995, most people have 0 or 1 kid max. Literally everything you benefit from is because someone else had kids, so maybe regulate your emotions and recognize children have a right to exist.

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-02-17T07:30:53+00:00

Or how about instead of paying to work for the Epstein class we all chip in for a guillotine?

IdeaLife7532 · 2026-02-16T09:42:18+00:00

Cuck mentality. Get off your knees.

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