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In general people should engage in more geographic mobility.
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As sad as it is, it's no different from any country at any other point in time. In the past it was letters, postcards, phone calls, now it's just tictok AND youtube, facebook etc. Even in the UK the young move from less prosperous areas to more prosperous ones. Globally, people need to be educated on the reality of what's behind the camera not the illusion portrayed in front of it.
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The fall of communism was one of the largest drops in quality of life and lifespan ever recorded, IIRC.
Only temporarily. Every Eastern European country, including Albania, now has much higher life expectancy than it did during the communist era. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ALB/albania/life-expec...
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/...
It also doesn't reflect changes in life expectancy during COVID, showing a consistent 0.08% increase every year. Seems less statistics and more projections.
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Its almost as if complex social and economic systems aren't magic and you can't just yell 'capitalism' and turn into the Belgium. Its almost as if just talking about complex social and economic system as a binary isn't a smart thing to do.
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Its almost as if complex social and economic systems aren't magic and you can't just yell 'capitalism' and turn into the Belgium. Its almost as if just talking about complex social and economic system as a binary isn't a smart thing to do.
Yeah, to turn it into Belgium, first you have to enslave and genocide people in Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_S...
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The fall of communism was one of the largest drops in quality of life and lifespan ever recorded, IIRC.
The curse of Eastern Europe, to die and empty out. It's the same in my country. Life in the UK and Germany > at home. And it's an exponential process, for every 1 person, 5 probably leave. My hometown was nearly 100k in the 80s, down to 50k if that by now. And it's mostly elderly, children, who grow up, go to the capital or just immigrate.