Comments by "Martinit0" (@Martinit0) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. You know your place is in terminal decline when the hearing aid shops take over the prime locations
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  2.  @carstenhansen5757  Why blame the uneducated for having kids when they actually save the country? Rich often believe that paying taxes is sufficient or they postpone having kids with all kinds of excuses. Taxes are necessary but not sufficient - we also need people to have a country. Bluntly said, who is going to wipe your ass when you are 95? Not your taxes, that is for sure. Ideal of course would be a combination, if the rich made more kids and the "uneducated" use less welfare. But in the absence of kids nothing else matters - we'd vanish into the clouds like the Minoans or the Aztecs or the Neanderthals.
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  3. Don't forget inflation. If fewer people work we'll have fewer things produced while demand is still high and wages will go up (low supply of work). Out of the window go your retirement savings that you believed were adequate. Increased immigration is likely the lesser evil: yes, people around you will look different and talk different but at least you still might have a working health care system.
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