littlexsparkee

we're talking about aging in advanced economies - those are folks with heavy footprints. if the west could be content with africa's growth and allowing for more migration, this problem is li…

So just teach those traits to other people? You don't need to have kids to help.

I see less burden on earth's environment as a positive.

A lot of people can't comprehend trying to restrain their consumption either, they try to poke holes in your plans to assuage themselves that their lifeplan is the right one.

I'm in my mid-30s with a partner that also doesn't want kids, saved probably 80% of my takehome for 5-6 years, and leanfire is within reach so it's doable. I don't need much, my ma…

herd effect (doesn't stand out, everyone's using it), 'forward-thinking' i.e. preventing ostensible future problem rather than admitting fault of overhiring or bad mgmt/initia…

I could see the water crisis, notably absent here, being what tips it. Iran is facing water bankruptcy and acquifers / groundwater recharge takes decades to centuries.

> that corporate profits would rise while consumer spend dropped are literally incompatible realities on a macro-level yes; CEOs are only thinking about firm-level though (other tech firms will act…

Rooibos is noncaffeinated, I just love it for its malty, brisk taste and the fact oversteeping doesn't make it bitter.

Zumper says 15.6% on 1b, 21.3% on 2b - how did you get to 60? https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/national-rent-report …

How the tea leaves were grown and processed is a better guide than ceremonial grade which is a marketing term, not something you'd see in JP. I tend to switch between tea, coffee, yerba mate, and…

it's just specialization, in most cases it's not efficient to do locally

you can fudge it for a while...but not forever. i worry about what kind of message this sends young minds though.

The brain needs fat to function - that explains a lot

It'll benefit established folks as the pipeline withers but at the expense of society - things were already sufficiently borked before this phenomenon.

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Have you considered that rather than people being ignorant, not everyone lives this average experience, or that some portion of this increase in wellbeing creates collateral damage and those that expe…

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