You are right, that is a great video, very well made and spot on correct.
The video shows Norway having by far the highest benefits for families with children, so I looked it up to see if it works, but their fertility rate remains very low at only 1.4!

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The euro has had the biggest gain of the major currencies against the faltering dollar, surging nearly 14 per cent to above $1.17

That’s for 2025.

Wall Street banks expect the euro to strengthen to $1.20 by the end of 2026

So 3 cent decline for the dollar for 2026, that is pretty stable if that holds.
The headline must refer to what has already happened, but then why is it “on track” instead of it being already a fact?
Or does the author not believe the Wall Street banks?

Anywho I don’t believe the dollar will only decline 3 cents against the Euro in 2026.
The American economy would clearly be in declining growth already, if it wasn’t for the AI bubble. I suspect this to become clearer when job numbers for January and February 2026 are released.
The completely irresponsible federal budget for 2026 probably won’t help either, and the Trump administration is almost guaranteed to make things worse as they continue their crazy policies, with or without Trump, I don’t think that really matters much. The rest of the administration is as crazy as Trump is.

Joke aside, that’s kind of the vibe it gives off.

Better to live to fight another day IMO. I will strongly discourage anyone from going on hunger strike, it will more likely than not ruin your health for the rest of your life, and it will also shorten your life, if you don’t die outright while striking.

True but that was a first and it was bigger and part of simultaneous demonstrations, and it broke with dogma of women being weak. So probably way bigger story for the press back then in the early 1900’s.

Today hunger strikes very often don’t get much attention, in this case, it is close to game over for these people.

Funny then how your previous comment is completely disconnected from the real problem.
I think I’ll just block you, because you are too weird for me.

Enron was cooking the books hiding huge deficits, and spending the money from the workers pension funds, so no Nvidia isn’t Enron, but that doesn’t mean it’s all good.
Enron was the absolute worst, only matched by the Bernie Madoff pyramid scheme and the Bankman Fried crypto fraud.

Saying you are better than that is a very bad look.

I don’t think you understand the problem, because lower is absolutely worse. A small decline in population is fine, the world probably has too many people already. But a steep decline like this is catastrophic for a country.

The fertility rate required to maintain population is around 2.1, having it at only 0.8 is really bad, making the South Korean population basically on a path to extinction within a few hundred years.

The principle of doing it yes, the way of doing it no.

Absolutely horrible, it’s sad anyone had to live through that. I hope you are OK now.

force her to abort me.

Wow I didn’t know they did that! That’s horrible.

Also she got sterilized for giving birth to me.

Goddam, they were absolutely ruthless!
I think congratulations for being alive is in order.
It may have been OK to have a policy, but this kind of enforcement is absolutely not IMO.
I thought it was only about losing privileges like the ability for the children to get a higher education.

As time has shown, they just never fucking do when they’re in charge.

Yes, the problem is that USA only has 2 right wing parties.

I’m hoping things are bad enough this time for democrats to actually do something. I’m not holding my breath, though.

That’s what I hoped under Bush, and his 2nd election was already a serious slap in the face. That Obama was elected made me somewhat hopeful, although he too was clearly right wing, and had clearly American exceptionalist viewpoints.
When Trump was elected, all hope was shattered, and now that Trump was elected a second time, I almost don’t care about USA anymore, except that USA is still a significant global power. And trends in USA have a tendency to spread globally. So we can’t ignore USA. But fuck they are the drunk bullying cousin you wish would have stayed home at family gatherings, because whenever he turns up, he ruins everything.

I also do still care, because despite USA being an asshole country now, there are a lot of Americans who are actually good people, and I do hope they will be able to turn things around. But as you say, I’m not holding my breath.

Isn’t it? If the population is growing too fast to be sustainable, who else can regulate this? Having many children is a disease of poor countries, having to few children is a disease of rich countries.

You can prevent people from having many children by taking away privileges. Problem is it doesn’t work so well the other way around. But would you find it equally wrong to stimulate child birth though giving privileges to families with children? Both are regulation to adjust behavior. Where I live we have incentives for people to get children, and we have free fertility treatments.
Would it be wrong if we had too many children to for instance remove free fertility treatment if you already have a child?
I don’t think it’s quite as black and white as you suggest. And almost ALL governments of developed countries have policies that influence how many children people get. Except those policies are to stimulate people having children rather than preventing it.

I just don’t see the one child policy as a good idea in any way because it’s too extreme. If they had to have a policy on this to stabilize the population, it should have been a 2 child policy. And realistically at the time they introduced the policy, the global population was increasing at a unsustainable speed, and the same was the case for China, and they had to do something to prevent people from having an average of about 5 children, simply to help the people get out of poverty. But they went to far IMO.

If USA falls completely it may be both a blessing and a curse. But yes USA is falling like an angry giant.
But I wouldn’t underestimate China, they came from next to nothing half a century ago, to now being a global power in many ways equal to USA, leading in production but also many scientific fields and having one of the worlds 3 biggest economies while still growing their economy faster than USA and EU. They have been doing just about all the right things, investing heavily in education and infrastructure, while also improving living conditions and creating a huge middle class.

I agree 100% that Russia is no super power, Russia is way worse off than China regarding incompetence and corruption, and they are merely the 4th biggest economy in Europe. IMO The only thing really scary about Russia is that they have nukes.

Best wishes to South America and Africa.

If we could have a world order built around the values of EU, based on the concept of prosperity through cooperation and mutual respect, that would be awesome. If we can agree among the different parts of the world on how to coexist, it doesn’t matter who is at the center of it or has the leadership. But as things are looking now, it can’t be USA. USA is way to disruptive to be a plausible world leader anymore.

How is that relevant? The problem in China now is that the policies worked for setting the number down, but now it doesn’t work for setting it up.
And it’s far from the government just “saying” so. The policy was enforced with privileges for those that followed it, and loss of privileges if you didn’t.
Notably whether your child would be able to get an education. And that shit actually works whether I would want to follow it or not.

I always found the one child policy weird, why wasn’t it a two child policy to maintain population stability?

since 1980, <snip> the number of enrolled students decreased from 9.9 million to 5.07 million.

That’s half the student in 45 years!

Korea’s birthrate ― the lowest in the world with the total fertility rate remaining below 0.8

Meaning it’s getting even worse!!

These numbers are insane, I’ve heard that South Korea is working like crazy to make robots that can help lift the burden of taking care of the elderly. But I wasn’t aware it was this bad!!

From the context it appears this is in UK, it would have been nice if they had started off early telling us where they are actually held.

But no matter where it is, this is sad, live to fight another day is a good motto. Hunger strikes rarely accomplish anything but harm to those that do it.

I 100% understand what you mean. I just bought a VW ID.4, and IMO they have a good balance. Everything needed for normal driving is handled with buttons, and although some are touch, they do have haptic feedback, and it works OK IMO.
I was looking at the Skoda Enyaq, because it has traditional buttons and more things operated through them.
But it cost about €5000 extra for the same features as is in our fully equipped ID.4 when used and 4 years old. But now I’m happy we chose the ID.4 instead of an Enyaq with fewer features. Because the ID.4 works way better than I expected.
It’s crazy and previously absolutely unheard of that the Skoda version of a similar car to a genuine VW is more expensive.