no, though I understand that it’s effort.
Also no, because the whole thing is YOUR CLAIM, and I’m not going to go around looking for evidence to disprove random theories on the internet.
And the rest of your comment again relies on statements that may or may not be true and both of us don’t have the data that could be used to decide either way.
sidenote:
instead repeating your own assertions.
That’s what you are doing. I’m just calling you out on it.
Because I already explained how it doesn’t earlier.
You didn’t explain it, you asserted that it does and then gave no evidence.
A half full train still runs the same track and route. A half used sewage system still needs to be filtered, cleaned, and repaired. Half used roads are still fully exposed to the elements. Half used buildings still degrade from time. Half empty buses are still used to get around.
I want the actual numbers, as proof.
I want you to actually look up, how much it actually costs citizens and society to have for example, running and sewage. I want you to actually calculate how much that would go up.
Like…
Half used buildings still degrade from time.
Nobody will do this. They will use the 50% of the buildings at 100%. Same maintenance cost.
For example, let’s say everyone’s electricity bill is 50$… Out of your wage of what 1500$? 2000$? So if population declines by 10% and the electricity bill goes up by 10% or 5$ you’re telling that it will collapse the nation?
And while all of that happens: keep in mind that real estate value and prices will go down. Less people means less need for living space. It means it will be cheaper to move to cities, with higher concentrations of people in areas that already have infrastructure, that’s already mostly paid for.
In order to make the required tribute, Sherry gives 9 pieces, 3 others give 33% a piece, and Bob still can’t give any.
This little math problem is basically a simplified version of the population collapse problem.
the candy monster (infrastructure) will still ask for the same tribute.
Yeah, you’re doing the math wrong, because maintenance cost goes down the less people there are. And the share of actually critical work is way less than what’s actually being… worked, so shifting some parts of the luxury production to critical production is trivial, it just needs to be done and the people doing the critical work need to be paid well enough to make the switch.
That’s it.
Those 700k are now going to have to pay nearly 1/3 more just to keep the same trains running.
That’s assuming you only tax income.
Even taxing the rich like crazy won’t make up for it if it’s bad enough
Yep, not buying it. Let’s tax them like crazy first, for 20-40 years and when that has actually failed, we can talk about next steps.
That’s so surface level, it’s basically insulting and doesn’t support the argument you’re making. It’s just some website saying random stuff that could or could not be true.
The reason the population crisis in Japan is called a population crisis is because it is threatening to go past that threshold. It wouldn’t be a crisis otherwise.
Right, and I’m doubting that that is the case, because nobody who claims these things actually shares data and evidence to support that claim.
are incredibly scary.
Only to people like you, whose job depends on it. If a nation half way around the globe has economic troubles, I don’t think that’s going to impact me much…
Yeah, or, hear me out on this crazy theory: the supply of labor is low, so wages rise and young people can finally earn more money on just one job?
And then all those bullshit jobs that are not actually producing value get cut?
It wouldn’t be the same amount of jobs.
Ok, but all of the things you listed are reasons why I would like this kind of economic system to decline. It’s what’s creating these circumstances and problems in the first place.
I still don’t see how that’s an issue. Just spend less money on elderly people?
Anyone. That’s how the labor market works. There aren’t going to be zero people capable of doing the work, they’re just going to be rare.
This causes a number of problems.
Yes, I’m asking you (or other people making the argument that population decline is so bad) to list them.
The biggest issue is probably not being able to play pensions
…and that means retirees will literally starve and live on the streets? I don’t think it will. It will just be less luxurious.
have people care for the older generation.
So wages in care work are rising?
“Population crisis” is a myth, created by people who want cheap labor. What’s the crisis? What’s so bad about a declining population number? Spell it out!
It’s also possible they are racist.
But if the choice were between racist and greedy, I’m going to bet on greedy 100% of the time.
Lots of skyscrapers with windows in America… would be a shame if someone fell out of one.
And to reward you, we’re giving you 24-hour visibility
(which is nothing special; there are 6 slots available for this visibility every day of the year for various Steam invitations).
He has no clue what he’s talking about Steam in 2021 had 69 MILLION daily active users. WTF do you think is a bigger number 130.000 wishlists or getting even 1% of 69 million people to look at something in the reel?
People don’t understand the size of steam or the value of that space (that one of six slots) sometimes. It’s wild.
And also, THEY noticed, THEY informed him, THEY apologized, and THEY offered some form of compensation, which they legally don’t have to.
I am soooooooooooooooo tired of indie devs blaming everything from the constellation of the stars to the quality of the donuts on a different continent for their game not doing well, except that maybe the game isn’t that good, and also those 100.000 already sold units is the actual size of the market for that game.
Very good, we need more non github hosting sites.
Sorry for the rant, but why can’t we as a community be more active in supporting [blank]
I don’t care about your fantasy of utopia, I need a working thing.
That doesn’t mean I’m hating on anything. Specifically the pine phone’s mistake was that they branded as “early adopter” thing too hard. If it says “extensive linux experience required”, that’s not me and I’m not going to sink 200-400$ into a thing that “likely” won’t work, because I don’t have the prerequisite experience.
It’s not my idea to make “open source business” work, the people who are offering that sort of stuff believe in it, and they have to make it work.
Me not believing in that fantasy and calling a “not fit for purpose thing” not fit for purpose, doesn’t make me a dirty traitor ‘to the community’.
Same for “struggling artists” btw. I see the same pattern in that space. If art doesn’t work for you, do something else.
They threaten to apply the law that’s supposed to be applied to everyone equally anyway?
I’m sure they’re shaking in their boots, if that’s a threat and not just… normality.
I’m more on mastodon and their filter system is so nice
I made a filter for “idiot did a thing” and every time the news has another article about how some idiot whose name is on my list did something again, as they do, because that’s all they’ve been doing for 20 years, I no longer have to read it.
But I still get the little “something was blocked, click here to read it” thing, so it’s very satisfying.
I don’t block often, but I would expect it’s a similar upgrade.