South Korea has a workaholic problem
One reason why they have the lowest fertility rate.
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Due to issues of normal distribution, unless you are a small country you canât use high end immigration to augment population. However, you can use it to bring in a small number of people to improve the economy and take pressure off the legacy population so that they can have kids.
Population-wise, Australia was a small country.
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To augment population via immigration, most of the immigrants have to be women.
A big problem in South Korea is the gender imbalance. More men than women.
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There may be a business model there â it certainly occurred to me while at CDC during the late 1970s that it might be possible to cultivate fertility as a business model with someone like Norris at the helm given his various statements and, in particular, âBack to the Countryside Via Technologyâ:
However, as you have noticed, there is an overall dynamic which I call âThe Unfriendly AGI known as The Global Economyâ that places everyone on a de facto war footing. In the particular case of media, this gives rise to something else you have noticed and about which I wrote in 1982 while at the Knight Ridder joint venture with AT&T to provide the first mass market electronic newspaper:
Mass-media influences cultural evolution in profound ways. Rather that assuming a paternalistic posture, we should be objective about these influences in making policy and technology decisions about the new media. It is important to try and preserve the positive aspects of extant media while eliminating its deficits. On the positive side, mass-media is very effective at eliminating ânoiseâ or totally uninteresting information compared to, say, CB radio. This is accomplished via responsible editorial staffs and market forces. On the negative side, much âsignalâ or vital information is eliminated along with the noise. A good example of this is the way mass-media attends to relatively temporal things like territorial wars, nuclear arms, economic ills, social stratification ⌠etc. to the utter exclusion of attending to the underlying cause of these events: our limits to growth. The need for ânewsâ is understandable, but how long should we talk about which shade of yellow Joeâs eye is, how his wife and her lover feel about it and whether he will wear sun-glasses out of embarrassment before we start talking about a cure for jaundice?
Mass-media has failed to give appropriate coverage to the most significant and interesting issue facing us because of the close tie between institutional culture and editorial policy. Institutional evolution selects people-oriented people â individuals with great personal force. These people are consumed with their social orientation to the point that they ignore or cannot understand information not relating in fairly direct ways to politics or the psychological aspects of economics. Since institutional evolution is reflected in who has authority over what, editorial authority eventually reflects the biases of this group. They cannot understand life, except as something that generates politics and âhuman interestâ stories. They may even, at some level of awareness, work to maintain our limits to growth since it places their skills at a premium. In a people-saturated environment (one at its limits to growth) people-oriented people are winners.
Actually, this is an ancient problem that keeps rearing its ugly head in many places in many forms. In my industry its called the âWhiz Kids vs. MBAsâ syndrome. Others have termed it âWestern Cowboys vs. Eastern Bankersâ. The list is without end. I prefer to view it as a more stable historical pattern: âPioneers vs. Feudalistsâ.
It took me another decade, and experiencing the passage of a law to ban NASA from competing with private launch services before I conceived and wrote up a political economic reform to strike at the root of the problem: Centralization of positive network externalities whether in the public or private sectors:
To that end, this white paper argues for the adoption of the
following policy reform:The government should tax net assets, in excess of levels
typically protected under personal bankruptcy, at a rate equal to
the rate of interest on the national debt, thereby eliminating
other forms of taxation. Creator-owned intellectual property
should be exempt.
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With the exception of basic functions of government and the pay
down of debt, the government budget should be dispersed to
citizens as cash, rather than being spent in government programs
or even limited in the form of vouchers. This is âmarket
democracyâ in which the citizens and their markets, rather than
central planning and politics, influence the selection of goods
and services to be capitalized and provided.
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Millions of
potential families, not to mention tens of millions of children
aborted for financial reasons, have been lost to our society
forever.In short, our social contract has been breached and the angry
plaintiffs are about to realize they can sue.This is a politically explosive situation.
It took me another two decades before I figured out that this could provide a monetary system backed by the net asset tax â which I attempted in 2014 to get put into place as county currency in Fremont county Iowa and finally got around to writing up as âProperty Moneyâ.
It took me another decade before realizing that property owners were so addicted to centralization of positive network externalities in the private sector that theyâd block any attempt at the county level, let alone national level, to do any of the above, and that Iâd have to appeal directly to the young men they were castrating hence replacing with foreign labor â and implement property money as militia money â placing all positive network externalities only in the hands of military aged men. I realized this would have to await a collapse scenario in which the forward-deployed cartel soldiers posing as âdoing jobs those lazy good for nothing young men of Iowa wonât doâ offered âprotectionâ to the large land owners and other traitors posing as âcapitalistsâ.
The response of The Powers That Be?
Flood the US with FOREIGN military aged men!
Offering guys like Trump or even Musk is a bad joke.
You guys think Iâm not being watched? It sure seems like it to me.
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This was the premise of Jim Rogerâs prediction that Korea would reunite.
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More demographic problems
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The only hope for the TFR of the US (and the West generally) is this Declaration of Warâs following provision:
- Since it is increasingly obvious to even Jews that the relentless increase in immigration rates since 1965 against the will of more than a supermajority of US citizens was a mistake, this option must be accompanied by acquisition of territories in the countries of origin of that horrific era of fraudulent mass immigration from around the world â and those claiming US citizenship from those countries must be the ones fighting the front line for those territories.
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These are the guys to whom I donated serial numbered coupons worth 100 hours of my services which they could use or circulate by selling them for USD. Not exactly an AR-15 donation for the fire and rescue raffle but then itâs what I could do for them. http://militia.money folks⌠get with it. (and, yeah, the photographer caught me at one of âthoseâ moments).
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Just got back from this call of yet another bloodline terminated here in the land of Private Ryan. No one knew of his death. What a mess.
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The âChicago Schoolâ economics has been a disaster for family oriented people. Economic security in political-western countries has declined and so have birth rates. Add in the pop culture narrative and a vax that causes infertility, you would almost say it was planned that way.
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Re fertility: you talk about vaccination (irrelevant) but you donât mention the pill?
And itâs STDs that cause infertility.
Even the creator of the pill has concerns:
âFor the last 50 years, the leitmotif was contraception. The present 50 years, itâs conception,â says Djerassi, 88, as though itâs the simplest leap in the world, which in a sense it is. Medicine follows the money â once people knew how not to conceive, the issue became how to conceive. It wasnât just ageing parity â women waiting until their mid-30s to have a child â that forced the change. The smaller, deliberated families of the developed world, post-pill, lent cultural credence to the idea of a child as a right and a necessity.
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Yes, STDs cause infertility, but we canât rule out vaccination as a (significant) contributing factor. Since nobody is going to do a definitive study, weâll never know for sure, but I will never believe anything a public health agency tells me ever again.
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This is so true. It is especially infuriating that numerous, once-respected agencies like the FBI and the CDC, so arrogantly threw away the publicâs trust in favor of raw power. As to the FBI, I canât help but notice that movies (especially older ones like on TCM) have for many years cast the FBI as the unequivocally competent âgood guysâ - knights in shining armor. This free advertising, alone, created a vast reservoir of deep public respect and trust. As far as Iâm concerned, that goodwill has been completely squandered.
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Thereâs too much evidence for antivaxxers to insert themselves wherever emotions run high. If you understand a bit of biology, however, it is complete rubbish needing no evidence. If someone produces it, we can look at it, but no data needed, sorry. We donât need to prove that sun shines just because a few morons want to act out their pet agenda.
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I think weâll have to agree to disagree on this one. Our understanding of biology is, letâs just say, incomplete at best, and when you start âtrainingâ the immune system (e.g. via a vaccine), you open up a Pandoraâs box of possible unintended autoimmune responses (which could affect fertility) that may take many years to manifest.
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That would be falling victim to FUD disinformation strategy:
Check the quality of the sources that youâre basing this decision on.
That is the problemâŚwho are you going to believe? The FDA? The CDC? The corrupt medical journals? How do you determine what is a quality source?
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Whoâs perfect? Nobody is. You need to look at the batting averages. CDC is not that bad if sometimes slow to accept new findings, say 85%. Journals can publish nonsense, but they also publish good things and are used by all the best scientists I know to publish their research. One needs to look at a particular paper to know. Some journals will be 95%+, others can be 50%-.
Antivaxxers on the other hand, they are 98.5% gutter.
Unfortunately, I donât find any of that compelling. Like I said, weâll have to agree to disagree on this one.
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âAntivaxxersâ sounds like âClimate Change Denierâ â more of an attempt to shut down discussion than a meaningful term.
There may be some âAntivaxxersâ who reject all vaccinations â I have never met any of them. There are lots of intelligent informed people who have stringent pertinent questions about particular medical interventions such as the so-called Covid vaccines, which were not vaccines at all â I have met numbers of such people.
It is not important in genuine science if only 1.5% of those labelled as âAntivaxxersâ are not gutter. If they are right, they are right â and attempts to shut them down are anti-scientific and wrong.
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