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They'd show for that, imagine the bragging rights

until the rate of profit improves

(it will not)

I can remember this back to the Bush adminsitration

The first one is still good as a stand alone if you go into it knowing the large scale stuff won't get resolved, like a slice of life piece in a fantasy setting.

I hadn't heard the claim that the trilogy was complete. My understanding is that he was writing these with his dad. Once his dad died he basically just stopped.

The part he did that was shitty was a kickstarter/donation drive for something with the promise that if a target was hit he'd read a chapter of book 3 and that played out like a grift.

This is absolutely a reasonable thing to criticize

Fair enough. Similar to the prevailing liberal thinking that kids are a luxury lifestyle that shouldn't be available to the poor.

I get where you are drawing from but I don't think this crosses over into eugenics. I interpreted this as being about cruelty/abuse not "too stupid to have kids" stuff.

yeah, I felt bad about responding after I scrolled down and saw another sub-thread. Your point about unintended consequences is valid, the context of the example is hard not to reject. Suprised I didn't see anyone bring up non-local drivers, which I think allows a less direct rebuttal.

not the person in the chain, but it came across something like "trying to change an unsafe driving culture is the real problem"

by current demographic trends, ceases to exists in 50 years

hey, I wonder why that is

That's a fair question, I guess I would've just used suicide but I get your point that that could be counterproductive as well