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TheRickBerman t1_jdvbje9 wrote

How can Germany be taking in millions of refugees every year and still think the problem is population? The issue is clearly incompetence in training millions of, typically, young men in the areas the economy needs.

Start creating free training schemes, pay people for each module they pass, and pay employers to recruit from these schemes.

Or just raid India…

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Wwize t1_jdvbc9p wrote

Netanyahu has no choice but to end the overhaul because of the massive strike that includes businesses closing to support the strike. A strike by workers and businesses together is unheard of. Normally businesses are on the opposite end of the strike. This is checkmate for Netanyahu. Once he stops the overhaul, his coalition will fall because the extremists will leave the coalition. He's done.

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HistoricalInstance t1_jdvaol9 wrote

It’s the same argument you see people make for anarcho-capitalism. Same issues, only that socialists are afraid of admitting that anarchy in general simply doesn’t work (on a scale that would represent modern countries).

First off, how do you prevent people from returning to a capitalist society, forming their own states or even ensure the core idea of equal distribution? What do you do when some start working more, produce desirable items and thus accumulate more wealth than others? As soon as you start using force to prevent these things, you’ve created a state and are back to square one.

Anarchy is only feasible amongst likeminded people, but the broader society is anything but likeminded. So the solution to this issue usually is “educating” the people (which doesn’t work, as Atatürk’s failed attempt of educating his country in liberal democracy demonstrated) or killing them (which I unironically saw being suggested here on Reddit), since that’s somehow “the lesser evil”?!

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DeeHawk t1_jdv9ly0 wrote

If you're looking directly into the eye of the black hole now, it means that was the position 657 million years ago. Gamma-ray speed is the same as visible light, which mean they arrive at the same time.

However, GRB's spread out over 2°-20°, severely reducing its effect over distance.

Which means it has to be pretty close to do any damage. (It would have to be in our part of the Milkyway.)

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M3G4MIND t1_jdv8oyz wrote

Because you don't have an even distribution between old and young people. In your example the population decrease from 100 to 80 would mean a drop in ice cream workers from 25 to maybe 15, meaning they wouldn't be able to make enough ice cream cones for the 80 people. It's the general issue that most of the western world is facing. Less young people to carry the work load and more old people requiring resources.

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