Only 6-7% of people are sleeping? Wouldn't you expect that to be more like 30%?
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Re: What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics
#82Only 6-7% of people are sleeping? Wouldn't you expect that to be more like 30%?
If half the earth's population lived in the pacific ocean, sure!
Re: What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics
#836 million intimate? Wonder how much this tracks stats by country, so as day/night moves along, can see bigger/lesser swings in the trend. Or is it just a flat ratio to population.
That number is half of any serious estimation of the worlds prison population. I don't think most of the numbers are tracked.
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#84Compared to my parents, I spent 20x the time parenting (the new normal) and I'm not sure these stats reflect that. Our global birthrate is a unconcerning 2.3 and worldwide restroom use continues apace. Sex is edging out smoking but not by much.
Not sure about you, but most smokers I'm aware of smoke way more frequently than anyone can reasonably have sex. There would probably be significant benefits to swapping the frequency of those habbits, but I'm afraid there might be some practical concerns.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
What approach would you take without getting rid of the concept of retirement entirely? If people live longer than they can work, they have to rely on the support of those who work in the old age - and the worse the radio of working people to retired people, the harder it is for the society.
The only thing that can work (which is also what is happening in practice) is to continually adjust the “pension & welfare” age upwards to achieve the necessary balance between working years and retirement years. The upshot is that everyone will need to save more for retirement than they do currently, whether privately or via taxation.
This is the same thing. Human lifespan can't extend indefinitely, so if you continually adjust retirement age upward, eventually you adjust it to a point that nobody ever lives long enough to retire.
Re: What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics
#86Not sure how I should understand `Warfare` and `Intimacy` having the exact same numbers ;-)
Right now at 14:54:05 UTC, it seems like Intimacy is at 0.16% and Warfare at 0.10%, so we got that going for us at least. Moving in the right direction at least.
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#88Related: I find the simulation and visualization of the same topic (albeit for US only) by DataFlow much more engaging and comprehensible. The project is based on data of a US survey. https://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-amer...
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#89Re: What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics
#90Compared to my parents, I spent 20x the time parenting (the new normal) and I'm not sure these stats reflect that. Our global birthrate is a unconcerning 2.3 and worldwide restroom use continues apace. Sex is edging out smoking but not by much.
> 20x
What do you think the actual number is in terms of dedicated hours per day?