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barnaby33ParticipantPlenty of hosts on Airbnb rent long term as well. Right now you could probably find a sweet deal on a longer term rental fully furnished. The facebook group San Diego Airbnb short term rentals is a good starting point.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantKeep in mind that all things being equal ideas like making birth control more available, better education for women, access to abortion etc. all take decades to work their way through to results.
Ideas do take time, which means they actually have to be implemented before you can watch them take action over time. No disagreement on this point. My disagreement is that we haven’t taken action at all and most of the last 30 years is a public food fight around access to birth control and abortion for women. No real discussion of birth control for men, which is both easily attainable, and would cut un-necessary births MUCH faster. Think Vasalgel.
Again, keep in mind that most developed countries have large proportions of their populations that are older with the younger folks not making babies at a rate to keep up with their deaths. This gets worse in ~10 years.
So what? Just because our current social support mechanisms are based on ever growing populations doesn’t mean they can’t be changed. Your life has a dollar value to your fellow citizens, lets make that a bit more explicit. It would shore up medicare and SS and be a shot across the bow of the fantasy of unlimited growth and unlimited entitlements. You can’t put 25 cents into social security and expect 1 dollar out, that’s the crime right there.
I do find it appalling that someone or some government would try to tell me how many kids I can have (and I’m male).
Well at least you’re appalled by something. The govt tells you you can’t marry your cousin either, why doesn’t that appall you? It also says you can’t own anti-tank weapons even though the 2nd amendment explicitly guarantees your right to bear arms. I for one find that super galling when I’m stuck in traffic. Societies only function with compromises. The larger and more specialized the society, the more compromises must be made. Specifically with regards to children, the compromise is that you feed them and society has to pay to educate them. I laugh every time I hear a parent complain about the costs of raising children, because society as in all of us is bearing a huge chunk of that cost. I have zero children. I’m happy to pay, knowing I get a better class of human to live alongside, but that absolutely gives me (via govt) the right to vote on how many kids you produce. I don’t think there are nearly enough restrictions on who has kids. Historically tax policy, war and ecological collapse are the only 3 mechanisms which effectively control peoples behavior. The latter two are much more natural yet I’d rather avoid their use. Tax policy is the least bad of all options. Have 1 kid get a tax break, have two and lets make it neutral, have more than two start paying up motherfucker!
JoshJune 19, 2020 at 8:23 AM in reply to: And the lawsuits start flying : landlord versus tenant #818369barnaby33ParticipantThe article is behind a paywall. Can you provide the summary?
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantLOL. The worlds population is growing at less than 2% per year and that rate is declining.
Wait until the baby boomers and similar generations die off. We’re going to be begging people to have kids.
Rates and levels, they both matter. Even if the rate of growth is slowing there are still too many people. I’m going out on a limb (a very small limb, more like a shrubbery) to say that all of the people in the world would like a higher standard of living. That isn’t remotely possible for the people who are here now, let alone another 1.5% next year. So the level here is more important than the rate. There is nothing sustainable about how the western world lives. Adding more people who we will convince to want what we have is even crazier; they’ll never be able to have it and if they actually tried would crater our standard of living.
Most folks prefer to go through life believing in a techno narcissist fantasy. One that peddles the belief that technology can save us. If we just make things a bit more efficient we can save ourselves from ourselves. Mostly what we use improvements in efficiency for is to build bigger (fatter) and dumber (less aware of the world around them) citizens. This religion is patently false first and wouldn’t even mostly be necessary if we showed enough self restraint to live within our ecological means. Technology isn’t inherently bad, but we never recycle to gains for the future, we just spend the gains in the present.
So to the poster who snarkily said, population is only increasing at 1.5% a year I say good on you sir! You’re belief in the goodness of the status quo is helping to kill us all, quite quickly! I’m guessing you have or want more than 2 kids!
Josh
barnaby33ParticipantDivorce court might be the easier route.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantThis may actually hurt Rich’s eyes to read, but I’m a long term optimist. I think the problems people are focusing on are distractions to avoid dealing with the real issues in front of us. Overpopulation, resource exhaustion and the accompanying food fight to maintain ones standard of living. These will get solved, one way or another and life will go on. I may or may not survive to see that bright future, but its there in front of us.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantOccupied is great. That’s the Norwegian show.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantI’m somewhere in the middle on my observations, but agree with DaveLJ as to our macro direction. What I’ve seen in my hood, Mission Valley, is that places that cater to an older wealthier crowd are doing ok. People are itching to get out, but that segment still has disposable income. Places in the rougher part of town say, Lemon Grove and Spring Valley seemed much less likely to be open. Most of my observations were made on long bike rides. I often head to the border and back via varying routes which take me through a broad range of neighborhoods.
One signal that startled me was how fast gas shot back up to almost $3 a gallon.
Joshbarnaby33Participantbarnaby33ParticipantVery small. 1 angry renter and a bag of cement.
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barnaby33ParticipantWait you’re feeling energetic, but sitting on the terrace? This does not compute.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantSubstitue HOA for neighbor and my experience last October was not dissimilar. Only difference is it is almost impossible to sue your HOA and win.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantMayhap because the quality sucked and people just went there to avoid paying for quality food?
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