SlopppyEngineer
It’s basic game theory and a race to the bottom. They either come together to set a bottom, do it by threat of violence or by law.
| Game theory | pay workers less | pay workers more |
|---|---|---|
| Go easy on workers | outcompeted | outcompeted |
| Squeeze workers | profit | outcompeted |
We have curse stacking so it forms one big word. Godverdommemiljaardenondju. It’s an ugly mix of dialect, French and Dutch, meaning something like “curse you a billion times in the name of God”. And if it’s only a mild inconvenience we only use a small part, like “dju” or “miljaar.”
Gif, the jift that keeps on jivving.
It’s a classic cycle. Because some have gay leanings they see everything homosexual as a sinful temptation and assume it’s the same for everyone else. The people must be protected against that perceived temptation so it must be forbidden. Meanwhile they fight against their own nature and succumb sometimes, which makes them repeat the cycle.
I have a chocolate joke, but it’s too dark
Meanwhile in Romania there is a measles epidemic because less people vaccinate their children.
YYYY-MM-DD for everything. My PC clock, my phone and even my handwritten notes all use that format.
The only other acceptable format is military notation: DD MMM YYYY.
And then everybody slaps a “Only for 18+, fill in your birth day” on their site and nobody can legally claim it’s harming children.
It’s not much better in the rest of the West too. Turns out that building a society where money and career determines your social status and doing unpaid work like taking care of a family and raising children is not valued at all and even very expensive makes people choose to have less or no children.
People of course do want children, but those that do very often will choose one or two children, below replacement rate.