many people are saying it

damn chinese monopoly board is looking good

They were also high on end of history histrionics and genuinely believed that economic prosperity would lead to an american style free market economy. And I don't think people were silly to think that way in the 90s. You had to be in the know to realize the fundamentals at play. That China, unlike the Soviets, did not privatize the commons but instead implemented a market economy. The only hint of how things were going was how Japan was forcefully turned into an american sharemarket economy. China by all indications did not have to and didn't.

is making a killing

some might say thats their business model

and to be fair, its not like kamala is part of the british royal family

Sorry to respond with such a small take but my impression is that the ecosystem you engaged with benefits from the socialist system preventing the worst of nickle and diming.

And I do think they make lots of money. Wether you're big tech, big pharma or big food - your market is billions strong. A small profit margin within a socialist market system is more than enough to maintain the capitalist class and ensure investment too.

More importantly: if you live within this market your expenses in dollar terms will be way undercounted.

The thing is: why? China is going through deflation. Imagine if you were in that position. You have an income, a job, and savings. On top of that you get to buy everything you need and want, and your money is constantly worth more because everything is cheap and getting cheaper. Why must this supposed frugality disappear when said savings are converted into investment and higher purchasing power for everybody?

It's only NFT level economies that need to blow 20 credit cards a month to keep up with rent.

That's assuming the economic arrangement during and post climate change is conductive to rising birth rates in the first place.

What people, especially on the right, don't realize is that falling birth rates is not a matter of incentive or culture. It's correlated with rising literacy rates. That's it. The moment people realize the costs of raising a child in an industrial society and how that affects their future livelihoods they simply don't. The reason birth rates were high in pre industrial societies is because having lots of children was the economic strategy of every living human - from peasants to landlords to kings and merchants. The reason we had exploding growth rates during the industrializing period is because literacy rates and standards of living actually went down in many places, and didn't catch up to the industrial reality until much later. Now, having a child is a luxury for the gentry few. Therefore, populations de-grow.

you must verify your income to date

hey i wonder why people won't have kids

sergent at arms arrests him and ships him to hague

the parliamentarian of course

i'm under the impression that 75k USD annually is actually a not great salary in most urban areas of the US

so there's the connection right there