There are so many pregnant couples between our friends. We mostly expect baby boom in our country. In news they say that we have biggest mortality in world due to covid. Well... People are probably not scared that much as agenda says.
We Expect 300k Fewer Births Than Usual This Year in the US
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That's what I don't understand, if population growth is stagnant or declining, how is it these housing prices are reaching such heights?
Because nobody wants to hold currency for extended periods of time.
Or more precisely, once a house attains some value beyond providing a roof over heads, the price of a house is no longer representative of a house, but a government backed asset that can never depreciate lest the pension funds fold.
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I’ve been thinking about this lately. Similar to you, the house I grew up in is much more less affordable now than it was when my parents bought it. However, in my case it’s not really the same house any more. At the time, the location was thought to be on the outskirts of town, away from the desirable areas. As the city grew, this location became the desirable area. If I look to what is now considered the outskirts,…
That's what I don't understand, if population growth is stagnant or declining, how is it these housing prices are reaching such heights?
Because people want to live in the city. I bet you can find really cheap houses in the countryside.
Iirc A couple of days ago there was even a post up on HN that listed places where the government would give you land for free, and I think also some starting capital.
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's what I don't understand, if population growth is stagnant or declining, how is it these housing prices are reaching such heights?
Because nobody wants to hold currency for extended periods of time.
Not when the government is printing it by the trillions.
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Unfortunately much of the financial system (in the US anyway) is highly dependent on population growth. Many existing entitlements were created during periods of uncommon birth-rates with the expectation that the babies being born will grow and reproduce at the same rate as their parents. This growth hasn't materialized, and much of the existing growth can be attributed to immigrant inflows. Regardless of the environ…
"Unfortunately much of the financial system (in the US anyway) is highly dependent on population growth." I came to this discussion ctrl-f'ing for "deflation" and while I got zero hits, your comment is close enough ... I will abstract one level deeper and rephrase what you said as: "Much of the financial system is highly dependent on economic growth." There continues to be fervent discussion of the results of QE over…
What do you mean? Inflation can be easily created - just create more dollars and credit them to people's bank accounts; you will soon see all kinds of prices going up.
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#206I'm surprised by this, as I had expected the opposite. Couples are spending a lot of time together being confined to their home without much entertainment, so I'd expected that to result in more baby making I guess the stress from the uncertainty of the future and lack of personal space more than countered that Time for me to adjust my assumptions about the world... And probably check my privilege, since I'm massivel…
So, maybe off topic, maybe not. i have a cat. She's a good cat, mostly. We get along pretty well, mostly. Before the pandemic, there were large parts of the day when we didn't see each other. Because we knew we would be separated much of the day, we found time to play around when we were together. I'd throw a toy and she would squawk and chase after it then look at me excitedly until I walked down the hall, picked it…
My cat died recently and I didn't get that experience before then. He always knew when I was ready, somehow.
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Makes sense. Time are certainly filled with more strife and struggle than the Great Depression, Dust Bowl, polio epidemics and two World Wars.
Seriously, people need some fucking perspective. Yeah, things aren't too hot right now, but that's because all you do is consume the 24/7 newscycle and worry about what some nobody on Twitter is agonizing over about Disney's latest TV show. The world is the safest it's ever been. Aside from Covid, many massive killers of the past are no longer a problem. Our ancestors would be shaking their heads if they saw the pros…
I was reflecting just this morning how glad I am that I don't have children. (And I don't follow the 24/7 newscycle or use Twitter.) You want perspective?
The Doomsday Clock is still set to 100 seconds before midnight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
> Aside from Covid ...
Covid isn't the last virus. And the tools we use to fight it are also the tools we could use to make worse ones. (Every tool is also a weapon. As long as people are willing to hurt each other technology is fraught with danger.)
Here's a brand new failure mode to worry about: "A puzzling lack of thiamine is disrupting some marine ecosystems." https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-oceans-mysterious...
We don't yet know how bad it is nor what's causing it.
And where the hell are all the bugs!? It's warming up now and there's nobody out there. That should scare the fuck out of you. It does me.
How many habitable planets are there? One. There is one habitable planet.
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#208This study seems relevant https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2378023121996854 > Fewer young adults are engaging in casual sexual intercourse now than in the past, but the reasons for this decline are unknown. And this recently discussed article https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/opinion/sunday/endocrine-... > Scientists are concerned by falling sperm counts and declining egg quality. Endocrine-disrupting chemic…
While endocrine disruption or inhibitors are very likely a factor to blame, I think we also have cultural and socioeconomic factors compounding the problem. There are so many who just don't want to deal with the current dating and casual sex culture. The rewards for time investment and effort just aren't that high compared to alternatives available to many, compounded by other factors of daily life competing for that…
> who are interested in casual sex but the effort is simply too high for them to pursue
They are outcompeted due to a lack of initiative and willpower; that's evolution doing its job.
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My impression is that most people who talk about overpopulation are basing it on old trends before population growth rates dropped off so much.
It is a fact that we're currently using a large number of resources much faster than they replenish. That seems like a good criterion for calling the planet overpopulated. One can of course argue that sufficient technology can curb our resource consumption without reducing the number of humans, but I find it a bit odd to use hypothetical technology deployment as an argument against the planet being beyond its sustain…
I think a lot of the disagreement in the comments here comes down to different ideas wrt the definition of overpopulation. When I talk about overpopulation, I talk about a human population that reaches the point where it's detrimental to quality of life for all beings on earth. Sure, we can sustain population growth for a long time by continuing to destroy more and more of our natural resources and wantonly disregarding the existence of all other life on this planet (and ultimately, our own), but can anyone who cares about the whole of the planet really look at that and consider it a net positive? In my mind, an anthropocentric perspective is as misguided as a purely misanthropic one, and is certainly more evidently virulent.
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Makes sense. Time are certainly filled with more strife and struggle than the Great Depression, Dust Bowl, polio epidemics and two World Wars.
Seriously, people need some fucking perspective. Yeah, things aren't too hot right now, but that's because all you do is consume the 24/7 newscycle and worry about what some nobody on Twitter is agonizing over about Disney's latest TV show. The world is the safest it's ever been. Aside from Covid, many massive killers of the past are no longer a problem. Our ancestors would be shaking their heads if they saw the pros…
Where will those children sleep? Every bedroom you add drastically increases the cost of already exorbitant housing. That’s just one of many basic necessities out of reach to most people, but it’s probably the biggest.