when I was 13 years old my dream was to be like that xitter.cf/lithiummm__/status/209…

it might be going to 3 if you think we'll more or less continue to grow the economy, maybe even really fast in the ai era. fertility does take a sharp upswing once people get to be fairly well off

Stated differently, etiquette is a way to retreat from public legibility, from difference. All the real takes are in the group chats

To be fair, by the ballot box stuffing, cheating democrat standards this is quite high support. Joe "most votes ever" Biden was only getting a dozen or two (paid) people at his rallies.

Despite being a cartoon, this was an approximation of pretty real and grounded expectations of the future prior to the implementation of the DEI regime. Sixty years later: stolen progress, a looted future, a canceled space program, farcical repeats of old accomplishments.

Contra the chart, house prices are actually down after adjusting for square footage and quality increase (safer electrical code, better HVAC, better thermal envelopes, more gadgets, addition of garages not counted in square footage, etc.)