you are a wizard, harry

tldr

they will both fail, yes

yep, more or less at least that was my experience

If you want my honest advice, the major considerations are that boys turn nonstop-horny for a few years, before that naturally stops.

Apart from that, yeah, general self-development. But that will take time, and experience(s)

It’s good that you know better what’s good for the people than the people themselves.

Yeah, sounds like you might have depression. That might sound scary now, like “uuh, depression, i don’t want to have a grave sickness”, but actually IIRC, like 20% of teenagers nowadays have depression. So it’s pretty normal.

Contrary to what the stereotypes might say, depression does not mean that you’re “sad” all the time (at least for most people), it rather means that you’re tired or without emotion most of the time.

I know the feeling of not wanting to spend time with other people because they might seem “boring”. But, as you’ve mentioned in another post (iirc), many of your friends seem to be “weirdos” (a.k.a. neurodivergent), so they might actually be interesting people. Either give them a try, or become yourself the interesting person that you would want to interact with, or wait until you one day meet somebody that you’re willing to spend more time with.

Well … just like the US economy is kept alive by the constant threat of unemployedness and therefore homelessness, the US society is kept moving by the constant “winning group”/“losing group” divide. If you would heal incels, there would be no “losing group” to look down upon anymore, and the US would have to create a new one, thus perpetuating the problem.

A lot of people really have difficulty with maths and programming.

The way i imagine it, programming is something non-real, something metaphysical, or how you want to call it. And a lot of people even plainly reject that such a thing meaningfully exists. Think about how many people reject the existence of “spirits”, “demons”, or “god”, based on nothing else but the argument that it is not tangible. Something similar is going on with maths and programming.

ooh shit, how did that happen? was it a crazy ex? i hope you get better soon. i know how demanding these post-stress syndromes can be. (i’m struggling with something similar, but not as severe)

Do you have a matrix chat account? I would like to talk to you in more detail.

I have collected these thoughts discussing with a small group of friends.

To really understand long-term development, it isn’t enough to just consider “pop econ”, as you rightly put it. I have considered some thoughts into it that are right on the border between reality and mysticism, for lack of a better word. The reason people do things is because deep inside, they are moved by the meaningfulness of it all. That is why it makes sense to consider the world’s fate on a story-telling scale.

People believed during the 1960s that economic growth was the right thing to do. As we all know (The Limits to Growth) it can’t go on that way forever, in fact it has to come to a halt. That is why the economy is in turmoil, and people must have fewer children or we face a large unemployment crisis in the future.

When that exactly will be is a subject to debate, and i put 2040 because there’s Renewable Energy that has to be set up, including everything that has to do with it (green steel, …). So that takes a few (maybe 20) years to install. After that … what comes after?

In my eyes, the unemployment crisis is bigger than the food crisis. Acres lose fertility, yes, but they retain 40% fertility in the long-term, even with all the insects dying and the mycorrhiza dissolving. Since people only use 30% of (technically) possible food-sources today, this should work out.

Somewhere around 25% less world GDP than now in 2070 from climate change destroying everything.

I don’t think we’ll have (and i hope we won’t still have) “GDP” in 2070, honestly.

The labor market is a free market - this means that prices are regulated by supply and demand.

If people have fewer children, there will be fewer workers, and therefore lower supply in working hours. This will mean wages would go up - and quite significantly. This is why i think it would make sense to implement policies to encourage people to have fewer children, or at least not standing in the way of DINKs (double income no kids). Because i want to keep the quality of life up.

So i guess, yes, it does make sense if the population number drops (peacefully). High unemployment rates typically precede social unrests, and i foresee high unemployment rates around 2040. Because economic growth is slowing down, and it is unlikely that it can be brought back to the rapid pace it had in the 1960s.

But it is economic growth that causes the most demand for workers. Simply maintaining things does not require such a high work input.

… which is absolutely understandable considering how lemmy is most of the time,

it’s politics non-stop, one bad news after another, everyone is quick to bash somebody as either a nazi or a tankie or something else.