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@umlaut @ZInterloper @313formation True, but to some degree *every* promotion path is stupid. Excellent employees get promotion after promotion after promotion untill they end up in a job where they don't function properly anymore (and then often remain stuck, unhappy, yet bound by golden cuffs)

@SlootenSv @ZInterloper @313formation Doing technical work and management aren't remotely similar which is why this promotion path is so stupid

The Syrian Islamist rebels have kidnapped a large group of Kurdish women in Tell Rifaat, Aleppo. This is no different than what ISIS did to Yazidi women and Hamas did to Israeli women.

@SridharNotAkela @Olliert1 @chinesegon If you're going to correct a non native speaker, at least use some proper language yourself. What are you, a street urchin?

@SlootenSv @Olliert1 @chinesegon “Teached”. The fucking irony of this

no one: guys getting paid 3x your salary:

@DieuwsNieuws Herkenbaar, dat continue gejij en gejou. Ik ben ooit van energieleverancier gewisseld omdat ze het niet laten konden om voordurend in straattaal te communiceren. Maar ook overheidsorganisaties kunnen er wat van. Ik noem het de infantilisering van de samenleving.

Wat mij altijd opvalt na een paar dagen NL is hoe mensen continu als een kwijlende baby/bejaarde worden benaderd: niet alleen nieuws wordt op kleuterjuftoon “uitgelegd”, maar ook restaurants hebben “gerechtjes” zoals “soepjes”. Wtf.

@justksthings3 @datepsych @wil_da_beast630 Maybe I can become anything but after reading this information all I am is shocked. I mean, the average scientist has 15 IQ points less than me?😬

@lurkerwaves @henokwrku @datepsych Physicists are at 114 and biologists at 111. Both still surprisingly low.

@henokwrku @datepsych I think it depends on the field. Physicists are probably smarter than biologists, etc.

@Olliert1 @chinesegon The "deeper level" of this is teached in 4th grade.

@chinesegon probably because he has curiosity to understand things on a deeper level and isn't embarrassed to ask stupid questions. So many people go through the whole of school math without even questioning why anything is anything. Once they learn the formula that's it job done.

@janchenoweth @MoreBirths Wait, you perceive children as burdens? That actually explains everything.

@SlootenSv @MoreBirths See! You are a great example of why women refuse to carry your burdens anymore. 👏👏👏

It will take big families to fix the birthrate crisis A lot of people will never have children for reasons that run deep. To make up for that, family sizes will have to get a lot bigger! The rise of singles As most people know, declining marriage has been a major cause of falling birthrates. Marriage rates of have been plummeting for more than 50 years in the US. In particular, those without a college education are marrying a lot less. But it is not simply a matter of people living together without marriage. As this chart by the excellent Financial Times data reporter John Burn-Murdoch shows, the share of young people ages 18-34 who are single has gone above 50%. If you are not living with a partner and not in any relationship, you are not very likely to have children. Even though having children outside of marriage is now commonplace, most people having kids are at least in some kind of relationship. For women born before 1975 in US, childlessness hovered around 15%, while around 85% of women became mothers. But for women born in 1990, only 70% are projected to become mothers, mostly because more women are choosing to remain single. But why? A lack of educated men, and women not needing men to support them It used to be that more men than women went to college. These days far more women go than men. Meanwhile, the income gap between young men and young women in the US has almost completely closed. In the US, young women earn almost as much as men while in the UK, young women earn more than young men on average. Most women want to marry a man they regard as at least their equal, and there are a lot of highly educated women who won’t be able to find a similarly educated man. Meanwhile, the role of a man as a financial provider is greatly diminished when women are earning as much as or more than men. Although many celebrate the disappearance of the wage gap, this means that one of the main motivators for women to marry has disappeared. Making matters worse a growing share of young men have neither a job nor are enrolled in school. Women and men are at opposite poles politically Today just 4% of all marriages are between Democrats and Republicans. Many countries including the United States are more polarized than ever, with women tending toward the left and men tending toward the right. Liberal women mostly aren't eager to marry conservative men and vice versa. Singlehood is a hard trend to reverse While many men have become less desirable to women in terms of education, money, and politics, the social pressure on women to get married, both from religion and culture, is less than ever. Do we expect that Democrat women will suddenly start pairing off with MAGA Trump supporters? Is a woman who went to graduate school clamoring to marry a man with only a high school degree who stocks shelves at night or change tires for a living? Young, professional women stand to lose a lot of status (and money) if they commit to the wrong man and a lot of women just won’t do it. We haven’t even gotten into the realm of attraction yet. Dating apps let women swipe right on a lot of attractive men, but there aren’t enough of those men to go around. I wrote about this recently. x.com/MoreBirths/sta… So, there is a severe matching problem these days. On top of that, a lot of young men and women have substance abuse problems or mental health issues that are unresolved. Should we push these people to become parents? As well, there are lot of people who just don’t believe in marriage, from women who think marriage means patriarchal oppression to men who think they will lose everything in a divorce. All this is to say that trying to increase the birthrate by getting more people to partner up is a tall order. Most people are single for a reason, or a lot of reasons. Rolling back women's education or turning mediocre men into great catches? Really? Larger family sizes may be the only way For a whole bunch of reasons we’ve just discussed, we are probably stuck with a high rate of singlehood for the foreseeable future. We haven’t even mentioned those who have a partner but don’t want children or can't have them. There are a lot of boxes to check before most people are willing and able to bring a child into the world: · Complete education · Become independent · Find a suitable partner who will commit to you · Find a place of one’s own appropriate for a family · Become financially ready · Structure your life for kids (find time in your schedule) · Want children · Be able to have children physically So, getting existing families to have more kids seems easier than getting childless singles to change their whole lives. People with kids have already found a partner, probably have a place, and have rejiggered their lives around children. And they probably like kids if they have some! What’s more, large families represent a return to the norm we had for most of history. Below is a chart of Children Ever Born (CEB) to women in the United States, by birth cohort. Source: An Economic History of Fertility in the U.S.: 1826-1960 by Larry E. Jones & Michele Tertilt Childlessness has always been a thing. Throughout the 1800s, between 10 and 20 percent of women were childless. But birthrates were high, and the America grew because those who did have children tended to have a lot. When the Baby Boom generation started having children, the two-child norm was established and that has been the most typical family size ever since. But there no reason why the norm has to be two. Fertility Turnarounds Usually Came from Big Families Examples of fertility turnarounds, where birthrates went from below replacement to above replacement are rare. But they seem to happen through existing family sizes getting bigger, not through eliminating childlessness. In the Republic of Georgia, Patriarch Ilya II promised to personally baptize a third (or higher) child in every family. This led to a surge in larger families that lifted the nations’ birthrate by a lot. x.com/MoreBirths/sta… In Mongolia, the celebration of mothers who have many children produced a big surge in fertility on the national level. x.com/MoreBirths/sta… Ultimately people have large families because they believe in the cause of having children. The Math Requires Larger Families If 1/3 of women are childless and 1/3 average two kids each, then the final third needs to average four kids each just to achieve a TFR of 2! Alternatively, a three-child-norm instead of a two-child norm leads to replacement fertility. x.com/MoreBirths/sta… Previous posts about large family norms: x.com/MoreBirths/sta… x.com/MoreBirths/sta… Please share and follow @MoreBirths!

@onlmaps Eastern Europe is so empty.. worrying!

Population of each European country. 2024 (map by epluseurope/instagram)

@ZInterloper @313formation Nah, now imagine: > Engineer is great at technical work > Gets promoted to managerial position > Isn't cut for it; everyone unhappy Much worse.

@313formation > Engineer isn't cut for technical work > Moves to a managerial position Seen it way too many times.

@TheAnalytic @Mercian_Man A lot, and yet it should. It's such a shallow concept. Certainly not a fit framework for a PhD level analysis. The fact that you can writhe a thesis trough an intersectional lense and get zero remarks says it all.

@Mercian_Man how many academic works would be struck out if the word "intersectional" was banned?

@HouseLemuellan @kcalbug Occam's razor would suggest someone is designing these.

@kcalbug I really don't understand how mimicry this detailed happens. Like there's no one designing these, this just happens, but how??

@BestCryptids The story matches near exact the report of Col. F. Fowler, who lived for 12 years in Alaska, from 1877-1889. He mentioned a trade of fresh tusks from two mammoths, who were killed by the tribe three months prior. strangehistory.net/2014/02/27/col…

Can anyone confirm this?

@rosy_maple_moth @LyxPar @greenTetra_ It's funny how folk etymology made aikurna evolve to eekhoorn/eichhorn!

@LyxPar @greenTetra_ that's a wrong folk etymology

I am currently losing my mind that "voor de lol" is a real phrase in Dutch that means "for fun" that is somehow completely and utterly unrelated to the English neologism "for the lolz".

@janchenoweth @MoreBirths Working mothers are not a new phenomenon either. Ofcourse a large family and a 9-5 job at the office don't combine well, but with todays possibilities to work from home at flexible times, it's just as "easy" as in the past –when mothers spun, sewed, braided and weaved at home.

@janchenoweth @MoreBirths Not really a big point if you consider that fathers currently have a bigger role in parenting and upbringing than in any moment of history before, when TFR's were significantly higher than now.

@MoreBirths Good point. Bigger families foster efficiency and economies of scale, and will help to build strong and stable communities. which makes them preferable from a social and economic perspective. Bigger families should be celebrated instead of frowned up on.

@RdHdSteppeson @wizardofux @nosilverv There isn't a single premise. There exist a lot of different variants and one is no more valid than the other (they're all made up). You must have missed them.

@SlootenSv @wizardofux @nosilverv I’ve seen this argument before, and its no less retarded. The premise does not include it for a reason. The premise assume universal participation, else the entire premise changes. If you ‘scroll past,’ you simply don’t exist in the world of the poll.

@RdHdSteppeson @wizardofux @nosilverv Wasn't it? I mean you could very easily scroll past the poll.

@SlootenSv @wizardofux @nosilverv Choose not to participate was not a choice given, changes the framing.

@itsolelehmann If they gave the Lifetime tax exemption to fathers with 4+ children the program would become a lot more effective.

Throwing money at the problem. Hungary launched the continent's most aggressive incentives: • Lifetime tax exemption for mothers with 4+ children • Free IVF treatments • Housing grants • Loan forgiveness per child

I'm German. Europe is dying out. Birthrates are rapidly collapsing. Government incentives aren't working. By 2100, Europe will have lost 117 million people. Here's why Europe's population is imploding (and what it means for the world) 🧵: