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Nothing to Lose
"They're looking at the future, and they're seeing that noone needs them anymore. ... We have to make some kind of future that has a place for them in it. Because unless we do, they have literally nothing to lose. It's all already gone." - Fred Johnson, Nemesis Games, ch 42, 12m30s.
- Zoomer No Upside: https://old.reddit.com/r/FluentInFinance/comments/1c32dy2/so_many_zoomers_are_anti_capitalist_for_this/
- Essential Worker v. Unskilled Labor: https://old.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/1c31i51/strange_isnt_it/
Popular Media
- Cultural hegemony: https://old.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/179v5ti/happens_often/
- There is an upside - at least to the progenitor, and perhaps sinister in a larger sense.
- Is the US-ian upside worth my unwilling knowledge that the Chris Rock / Will Smith / Jada Whatever story is ... actually, let's just end that sentence at "is?".
Leopards Ate My Face
- Patron Saint: Smedley Butler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
- Angela Chao, sister of Elaine Chao: https://old.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1bbfej5/environmental_storytelling/
Straw Man
- Subreddits
- Public Admission of Domestic Abuse: https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/18st7it/absolutely_zero_selfreflection_or_awareness_in/
- Mustard Filler: https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/18snuy6/his_face_at_the_end/
- Neighbor Number Facetime: https://old.reddit.com/r/rareinsults/comments/18svo00/this_might_have_been_used_before_but_wow/
Religion
- Strip Non-Theistic Churches of Tax Status: https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/18xv6zs/oh_please_do_go_there_who_wants_popcorn/
- Classical Theism Takedown: https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1awf1zu/inquiring_minds_want_to_know/
- Trust in The Mysterious Ways
- https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%203:5-6&version=NIV
- "5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."
- https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2011%3A5&version=TLB
- "God’s ways are as mysterious as the pathway of the wind and as the manner in which a human spirit is infused into the little body of a baby while it is yet in its mother’s womb."
- So, to summarize: "He will make your paths straight, and as mysterious as the pathway of the wind."
- https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%203:5-6&version=NIV
Wedge / Class Divide
- Boomer / Generationalism: https://old.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1b1txpn/generation_who_gutted_unions_retirement_and/
- Over half of older adults have < $30k/year income: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1buruy2/bernie_sanders_report_reveals_over_half_of_older/
- Adulting Classes: https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1c0g9ai/media/
- Boomers do the grindset thing. Introduce two-income households.
- Latchkey kids become a thing, don't learn from their parents.
- Average household income relative to cost of living climbs for a while, then flags despite two working parents.
- The contents of a container expand to fill the container. Traffic increases until traffic sucks, regardless of # lanes.
- Billionaires take the increased production.
- Latchkey kids lack skills.
- Boomers blame latchkey kids.
- Latchkey kids blame boomers.
- Billionaires laugh.
- Leviathan Wakes CH 30, 8m30s: Stirring The Pot
- Holden: If we had enough people, we could make it. They couldn't kill all of us.
- Miller: That's what the patrol goons are for. Make sure no-one can organize a big enough push. Keep stirring the pot.
- Song Lyrics: Simple, Angry, Self-Obsessed: https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1bqdkse/song_lyrics_getting_simpler_more_repetitive_angry/
- DNA & Parents: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191218153459.htm
Random
- Dating Starts Online: https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/18h7k9g/how_heterosexual_couples_met_oc/
- Trans Sports Study: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/04/10/bjsports-2023-108029
- Health Anti-Correlation with Copayments
- Finland Homeless Solution (give them homes): https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1cglypn/just_makes_sense/
- Germany, East Germany, WW3
- Wealth / Happiness
- https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/money-matters-to-happiness-perhaps-more-than-previously-thought
- https://www.smh.com.au/business/entrepreneurship/you-can-t-have-too-much-money-happiness-researcher-finds-20240718-p5jum2.html
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208661120
- See Documents/hacking/socioeconomics/killingsworth-et-al-2023-income-and-emotional-well-being-a-conflict-resolved.pdf
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