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Yes…because those things create wealth. Sounds like you agree but are trying to find an argument. We know birth rate and wealth/poverty are directly related…it’s is what it is. Once upon a time it was just understood that was the case…before everybody injected personal politics into everything.

For the purposes of my comment I’m ambivalent about the political “vehicle”…I’m just plainly stating what happened: social policy raised billions out of poverty….then the capitalist elements of the society demanded labour. We know it’s not the other way around. If you think I’m assigning value to either capitalism or socialism, you’re projecting.

Meh…what, in your headcanon, am I “selecting” for? I don’t even know if you got “offended” about socialism or capitalism, I don’t want to debate something I didn’t say.

You’re correct. It’s an oversimplification…but not a big one.

Cold hard predicative and replicable facts are better than “it must suck in China so they don’t want kids, bro”

Don’t get carried away. The reason is the opposite of what you think.

Their birth rates dropped dramatically because they raised so many people out of poverty with socialism. But now capitalism demands that they generate more workers.

Pretty deep irony, because very recently they weren’t allowed to have more than one child.

The Musk phenomenon is so strange. I live in Canada, and I’ve made multiple people absolutely melt down over the smallest criticism of him.

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I hope the next Democratic candidate doesn’t run entirely on reversing all this cosmetic shit. Liberals would probably elect the person who says “I’ll erase any trace of Trump if I take office”.

I’m not super committed to this…but we know nothing about her and the only thing we know about her is she didn’t love him and left when the money was gone. I like fiction, so I can fill in the rest:

She obviously “dug her gold” long before he was 69. She was a meth head…10s of thousands was like millions to her. It’s Florida, after all. She married a moron in the first place, she’d been stealing his money for years. Him being stupid wasn’t surprising…it was just a pretext for her to bail and take half of what was left because, with no cash, there was no point in staying.

It’s true.

But could it be that idiot men do well with idiot women?

But would you marry an idiot in the first place?

Huh. Why would you write this positive back story for her?

All we know about her is she married this dumbass in the first place and left him because of money.

Because she married a moron? What about this article makes you think good things about her?

In your head canon she’s an angel with bad taste or something?

I said he was stupid. What do you want from me?

Neither do you.

She married that dumbass in the first place…maybe because he had money shrug.

I said he was an idiot AND she’s a gold digger.

She married this dumbass, ffs…she’s probably not cool.

I’m just guessing…who knows what her motivation is.

I commented because of how bad social media is for automating ads.

He’s an idiot…but his wife is also likely a gold digger?

…but at the same time he’s old and shouldn’t be expected to be tech savvy. I’m always worried about the viral nonsense my elderly mom falls for. If mom didn’t have a son like me drilling it into her head that everything is fake…theydve got her money by now.

What don’t understand is why isn’t social media fucking complicit for allowable these ads? Back in the 80s you couldn’t tell a white lie in a TV commercial or else you’d get fined…but YouTube and Facebook aren’t even required to have actual people checking the ads people post on their site?

Just insane.

I always refer back to Peter Griffin.https://youtu.be/r5TGIRkL9JE

Maybe I meant to type Smurfs?

I grew up in a very poor neighbourhood, then moved to a very rich one for high school, then back to a different poor one for young adulthood. I feel I can speak on this.

All the rich people I know are lazy and are constantly on vacation and play golf/whatever exclusive sport they prefer. Doesn’t matter if they’re 15 or 50…they basically all have the same life style. They will lose their minds if a peer stays at work at work or works in their home office for an extra hour or two a day as if they deserve a medal - provided the work is white collar work. They will completely disregard all the random days off and vacations they take on a whim as if they didn’t happen.

The hardest working people I know are immigrant dishwashers, hands down (just because I spent a lot of time in the restaurant industry - I’m sure there are equivalent jobs in other sectors). 6-7 days a week 10-12 hours a day, sometimes less than minimum wage, no overtime. Thankless, soul sucking, and difficult work. They will never ever complain, never ask for a raise and beg for more hours even tho additional hours have to be “off the books” and paid out of petty cash. Don’t even get tipped out like cooks. Never buy a luxury. They raise families and put kids through university. Biggest unsung sector in labour, as far as I’m concerned. Also the most exploited that allow the rich people to pretend what they do is work. If you try to advocate for them they tell you shut up and not rock the boat.