Do you think it’s better to be a women in Afghanistan?
No. But if you give women the choice you have to create the conditions that having a baby is the best option.
It’s not about the living standards.
It is, if you give women the choice.
Then for sure you can tell me what is wrong instead of insulting me.
physically, financially, emotionally
So the latter two can still be improved.
outlook of the world isn’t great either.
My argument
Immigration allows the elite to avoid the consequences of their bad politics. If living conditions were good enough people would have children.
I don’t mind better politics or living conditions, but look at the nordics. Best places in the world to have a kid and we still can’t manage to have 2 kids per couple.
There is no singular definition of fascism. If fascism is defined as monarchy but without human rights, then of course fascism is impossible without violating human rights. But that doesn’t capture the essence of fascism.
Human rights for all humans are not possible in a fascist society. By definition.
I have received many downvotes and some bans but not a good argument why that is always true. What is essential to fascism that is incompatible with human rights?
Btw I think human rights are important and fascism is already bad for linking state and economy.
I know the arguments. They sound reasonable. But if people get a year of vacation for making a baby, and they don’t make a baby every other year then something is really bad about rising children.
Foreign assets must be outside the Euro zone to devalue the Euro. It still devastates countries but not EU countries.
For the devaluation to work right now, we must already do that. My guess is that it’s poor countries buying stuff from China. In that light, fiscal discipline could mean less stuff from China as a preparation for decoupling. But that cannot work because if people have less money they cannot buy expensive stuff from the EU.
as their capital and the capital returns are now in the hands of the already rich countries
Do people ever hold those assets? Don’t they just wander from one set of billionaires to another?
The big picture is that fewer global resources are spread among more people. People are inevitably becoming poorer unless they count their immaterial goods, their movie, music and gaming libraries.
We have to redesign cities for that. Better sooner than later as long as we have some resources.
The rich countries export economies can always devalue by buying foreign assets, like Switzerland.
Before the introduction of the euro, there was a public letter by economists that warned about the danger of the conflict of interest between countries with strong and weak currencies. Everybody but the population knew.
It is wealth transfer from the rich countries and it also makes it difficult for poor countries to compete so the rich can buy assets. Yet poor countries could always reduce their wages instead of devaluing their currency, but that’s unpopular for emotional reasons even though financially it is the same. In the end it’s wealth transfer from the poor of rich countries to the rich of rich countries with everybody in the poor countries as the funnel.
We are playing this game for 20 years and more. It hugely undermines the credibility of the EU, for all countries. There shouldn’t be hidden agendas. If the EU thrives by exploiting its poor in all countries then something is wrong. It also shows how bad Russia must be that Ukrainians still want to join.
Right, I just read the summary. I don’t like cliffhangers.
You didn’t misunderstand but drew a conclusion. How happy are people if they don’t want to have children?
If they are not happy why draw people out of countries where they are happy to have kids and make them live in a society where people are less happy?
In Italy 16% are willing to defend the country. What does the author suggest that could be used to take full advantage?
This is a material analysis. What do parents say why they don’t want more children?
If Sweden is a society where people don’t believe in a better future I think it’s better to export the jobs instead of making more people live under those conditions.
How easy is it to get housing for a family of 5? How is child care if a child is sick? How high is the expectation for women to lose weight after birth and look good?
If people have 2 children but not 3 then something is missing. It could be that a third child is simply too expensive, even though almost all resources were bought for the first two children. It could be that parents are already too old and don’t want to lose more sleep. Maybe all TV shows just show two children.
There must be a reason. Enumerating good conditions says not much about what is missing.
Was the Iliad right and we should accept war as a natural part of our life?
They wouldn’t. If people would want to see it they could vote for a party that taxes the billionaires. Schools, hospitals and housing could be built right now.
Best places in the world to have a kid and we still can’t manage to have 2 kids per couple.
So obviously not good enough. It doesn’t have to be material, values or expectations could also be not good enough.
The fewer workers exist the higher the wages rise. Look at the compensation for people after pest waves.
Immigration allows the elite to avoid the consequences of their bad politics. If living conditions were good enough people would have children.
Now people are moved instead of moving production processes to where the people are.
Putin hates Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
What makes you believe this?
If you look at how people vote, especially in the USA, how could the USSR be structured any different for what they wanted to achieve?
I don’t think that that puts blame on Taiwan.
However thank you very much for that explanation.
Why should there be a fixed border? Improve material and emotional conditions for families and that border will shift.
Conditions in Sweden are best and still not good enough. Of course they go down in other countries.