@SW-User Over-population? No, the Earth isn't over-populated, and demographers and statisticians will all tell you the same thing; a big collapse in numbers is to be expected over the coming decades of this century, because not enough people are having children.
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@DLight The population continues to grow, and bug recipes are being promoted to feed the starving.
@SW-User In overall numbers it continues to grow, but we now have a situation where those who are old (over 50) outnumber the young. That's not sustainable. In the not-too-distant future, our numbers will plateau, and then slowly go down.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
I agree with your principle, although not all your conclusions. Maybe for those few rich it will be true. But modern society with all its advances will only be available to those who can afford it, which wont be many of us. We have borrowed against our futures and pretty soon now the bill will be presented for payment. A lot of people will be short.😷
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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@DLight I am not talking about "modern medicine", although look at the costs of that in some countries. And should you be in a less developed nation, an organ transplant is something you travel overseas for. But the next big thing in cloning parts or gene therapies may already be happening in places like China, where the ethics are not so rigid. Is it so hard to imagine that in a nation like America, without social support safety nets, a two tier system of medicine can be applied? As there is already in education and justice?😷
@whowasthatmaskedman Well, I don't live in "America", so that's not my problem. What I do not understand is why so many of you over there actually tolerate this abominable situation, a situation where money always comes first, and if you can't afford a hospital stay, then oh well, too bad for you, you die. Why do you put up with such shoddy treatment?
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@DLight I dont live in America either. But I have visited on business and as a tourist.
I "understand" the reasons why Americans tolerate it. They have been sold a bill of goods over what it is to be American. But the politics there are horrendously corrupted, which I guess we would still object to. But they dont object enough to do anything about it. Money runs the nation and feeds both sides of politics to give them the idea they have an alternative.😷
I "understand" the reasons why Americans tolerate it. They have been sold a bill of goods over what it is to be American. But the politics there are horrendously corrupted, which I guess we would still object to. But they dont object enough to do anything about it. Money runs the nation and feeds both sides of politics to give them the idea they have an alternative.😷
hunkalove · 70-79, M
I couldn't afford to go to a doctor even if I was dying. And at my age I probably am.
turtle777rescuer · 36-40, M
The house of cards infrastructure is going to collapse for a few years whether you like it or not, electricity is going to become too expensive to maintain on a mass basis and people will need to have their own supply or learn how to live without it for a few yeara juat like ppl did back than ... but of you believe thats its not going to fail, gl to you to each their own
@turtle777rescuer House of cards infrastructure? Are you living in some war-torn African country like Somalia or South Sudan?
turtle777rescuer · 36-40, M
@DLight 😂😂😂 only someone who has never read history or has no idea how economy works would say that... look into the great depression and what made it happen and you will see it's all about to happen again in your "mega advanced" country.