Dope Tech Episode 2

<<@intrepidtomato says : He is spot on. My husband and I escaped childlessness late, like a house on fire. Not ideal, but better than no kids>> <<@6teeth says : Women do not want kids. They say they do, but they wmake no efford getting there, other than postponing it and postponing it.>> <<@6teeth says : Fun how the talk about the future in 15 years when you, today, cabn almost make any 3d pron yout like with you in the leadrole. It went really fast with AI, till this point.>> <<@wudanpo says : Boring>> <<@AwakenedOne-qu says : The economy will be the population's armageddon>> <<@TheDylonCarter says : This guy is an asshole>> <<@clippywants2help says : "yeah, that's interesting" it what someone that isn't listening says>> <<@clippywants2help says : Working for people like Tom is a fucking nightmare>> <<@clippywants2help says : How much you made at someone else's age has absolutely no value in considering. Inflation and wage stagnation have made that data completely pointless and useless.>> <<@generallyph says : it's almost dystopian feeling that we regard having children now as almost a terrible act against humanity, as if we should be ashamed and reject the idea of bringing more lives into existence, i understand the argument against having children, it implies that basically we should allow ourselves to go extinct, is that really the answer? can we think outside the box and find alternative futures where things are brighter or more palatable, that makes having children desirable? im sure we can come up with solutions if we try>> <<@BigDolph01 says : Notimestamps??>> <<@catladyneedshelp says : Social media and that grass is greener syndrome. Where people think they're always better and they're never content with what. No one is willing to be there through thick and thin there. Everyone started to move onto the next they can't handle confrontation or conflict and they have no way of resolving it so they rather just find someone new.>> <<@channelyoururl says : Yeah but houses are an "investment.">> <<@tylerallen6995 says : "My people are making way more than I was at their age" is such a terrible argument because it still hasn't kept up with the cost of housing, healthcare, and transportation.>> <<@latanecampbell1214 says : Narcissism will abound. Not good for the future. But we have to create conditions for folks to be ABLE to have a family. My sympathies for all that want a family and cannot have them. I know many folks in this circumstance.>> <<@Carlcar550 says : Because the ''THING'' system is really a self destructive system. Human society is bad for the soul.>> <<@master8127 says : "I pay good wages". Yeah yeah, everybody claims that but for some reason nobody drops the actual numbers>> <<@naumankisana says : You allow sex without marriage face the music why marry? Women can get 50% by divorcing the man why would she stay with the guy?>> <<@TheInternetIsDeadToMe says : The base of the pyramid is collapsing. If you’re at the top because of your “insane work ethic” and you think people at the bottom need to try harder you’re missing the point.>> <<@greenlantern7959 says : The expected standard of living, and associated cost, has risen significantly. 50 years ago, the “single income” middle class was a small, 2-3 bedroom home, 1 car, no cell/cable/internet/streaming, no fitness memberships, meals prepared at home. Today people expect to move straight into 5-bed 3500ft2 home, 2 near-luxury or EV cars, $300/month in infotainment expense, doordash cooking, etc, then looking ahead to the costs of suburban “elite” sports programs, private schooling, to build resumes for college costing a home mortgage, and it’s forever away. The ratio of consuming to producing has inverted.>> <<@markm3477 says : For the first time in history, Opportunity Everywhere is being Limited. Best example; Medical schools. There are WAY more than enough 'qualified' people to be doctors....but if there are 5 seats and you're the 6th person with grades just as good as 1 thru 5, but dont have the connections; you're out. Full stop. If your parents didnt give money to the school or didnt go there (legacy admissions), you can forget about it. Parents giving money to schools is like the legalized bribery called lobbying that takes place in politics.>> <<@Littlejonjontheking says : I have a bachelor's in computer science all entry level jobs have been outsourced. Only jobs available now are dead end jobs. Welcome to the new American Dream.>> <<@ronpearson1912 says : GOOD jobs are extremely rare and if you loose a good job you are either unemployed a VERY long time (and maybe have to take a mcjob to survive at home), or move far far away. The thing is even the good jobs don't pay THAT much, certainly not enough for someone to stay home and raise kids. There are people that are so profoundly skilled and intelligent that a business cant loose them but those people are extremely rare>> <<@patrickchristianmagtaan5511 says : 🙈🙈🙈>> <<@yogasetiaone says : No money, no baby 🎉>> <<@KipIngram says : One of these days I'm going to see Eric Weinstein deliver a positive, upbeat message - and I'm going to faint. Does he ever have ANYTHING to say that isn't dire and disastrous??>> <<@TToilets says : Why do some find better to use bad language to get the point across as a man ? Answer : Because it's easy and you are weak>> <<@OscarLimaMike says : " The story of your enslavement" Use any search engine but Google.>> <<@OscarLimaMike says : Commodifying people never ends well.>> <<@GungaGaLunga777 says : When one or even TWO jobs can't afford even the most simple shelter or food, nothing else matters. Most of Americans now living in survival mode at bottom of Maslows heirarchy of needs. Collapsing society and collapse the nation and civilization itself. Greed of the few destroyed it all. Welcome to the Hunger Games.>> <<@eaglesfan2285 says : I am very concerned with the tone and burning desire to break something down in the comments. Weinstein feeds this. We need reason and temperance back in our society, and we should be very careful in listening to folks like Weinstein without other intellectuals who can push back against his statements.>> <<@Masakhe01 says : Yeah. You're the liar, Eric. What a charlatan. Cant believe people eat your shit up>> <<@jdt846 says : you noted growth in the 70s and 80s, when society had equitable tax rates on all earnings (marginal tax rate of 90 above today's equivalent of 3.1 million dollars), society as it is today is too corrupt to fix itself and will continue to eat itself alive unless we crack down on the unhinged levels of corruption we are seeing in the USA>> <<@PrateekSingh-m8s says : https://youtu.be/YFeZDKNuWZc?si=vML2bxPBCG1H5RAe indian perspective>> <<@Thestateversusthepeople says : Thank you . I have been beating myself over why countries embrace migration. What do the countries gain? Well apart from more people to tax?>> <<@MrChaimke says : Mortgages...>> <<@fainitesbarley2245 says : All my younger years we lived in fear of catastrophic population explosion Turned out we could feed the world easily (absent wars and politically engineered famines) and in less farmland too. Now we are supposed to live in fear of catastrophic population decline.>> <<@marcelclover6650 says : Dudes gotta Afro😂>> <<@thetinymary says : 2:38 Women frequently have outrageous expectations and men are supposed to take any woman and be grateful? No. Let the women compromise.>> <<@deannahouston8801 says : In the end we are selfish. We haven't had children cuz they "mess" with our freedom. We have been lied to that abortion is freedom. We have cut off our noses to spite our faces and are now a very lonely planet and as we age it will be lonelier.>> <<@TristanTris321GoT says : Women don’t need men anymore and men have too much to lose to be in a traditional relationship that society has been destroying for decades.>> <<@timothy8142 says : Wow. That explains why so many large industrial companies (auto, parcel delivery, aerospace) are paying a base wage (plus overtime) of over $100k per year. With benefits it's in the $140k range. In regards to the future of labor, the labor curve is dead in the water on the long end and labor is extremely scarce. Which is why companies are like "Well, let's just pay these guys now because there's nothing in the future in terms of labor supply". Unfortunately there are many people, both men and women, who have mentally clocked out after witnessing what happened over 50 years, and 2008 still has a scar on many people. And labor force participation rate among working aged men in America is at historic lows.>> <<@drifter50038 says : It is quite simple. It's a game of musical chairs. And they keep pulling out a "chair". The more technology you create that eliminates Labor... the MORE people have no employment sufficient to sustain life.>> <<@coolircarey1665 says : Men don’t want to marry because we have nothing to gain and everything to lose. Change the laws and maybe you’d see more marriages…>> <<@marya1316-v4b says : We have got to the stage where corruption is both top-down and bottom-up, pretty much all over the world. There are few pockets where people are still trying to be morally upright and they’re genuinely good to their families and neighbours. But people underestimate the impact of financial institutions on our ability to function healthily. The construct of interest and credit based societies and inflation which is used as a tool to control us are not normal or natural and shouldn’t be treated as such.>> <<@a.lerner8468 says : Having two parents working doubles their TAX income... And gives complete access to the minds of the young children !>> <<@hootowl6354 says : Stop saying the f-word. It doesn't really help your communication skills, and it makes you sound uncivilized.>> <<@hootowl6354 says : What a bunch of pathetic comments. Too many people have this victim mentality nowadays. There are many high paying careers out there if you get the education that is required. Where people suffer is in mid-level jobs, and those have dwindled because we want cheap products, which is what causes jobs to be moved overseas. Reducing overseas production increases inflation. Pick your poison. Life was never easy.>> <<@a.lerner8468 says : The system was never created to enrichen your lives but theirs... yours are the shoulders, bones and corpses upon which they build their mansions !>> <<@dfuser2681 says : The power brokers are using all aspects of society to increase their control of the masses. Economic and social controls that will have most people boxed in with little to no real freedom. The collapse is coming and these people are hoping to use the disaster to remake the world according to their views and by their wills and not yours. {The new Slavery}>>