>>13202307>I recently read that New York Times Stop wasting you time on trash media. NYT hasn't been worth reading for decades.
>Capitalism is the engine of all technological progress, It is not, we hit the point of deminishing returns on R&D investment in the 60s already. Good science, math and engineering research requires more time, not money. Money in fact is precisely the problem. Our best minds get poached by Wallstreet. If there was less market growth more people would stay in research for income security.
The other problem is rushing projects for market growth which leads to short term grants producing bad research.
>and now that birthrates are dropping everywhere there won’t be any more immigrants to keep the economy growing. GDP doesn't truly grow with immigration anyway. The quality of producivity matters far more, so automating a plant matters far more than say employing 100 people and paying them a small wage to consume cheap necessaties. Most immigrants are a net loss to the economy including the consumer spending due to remittance payments and disproportionate use of social benefits to make those payments to the third world.
Neither lower birthrates nor less immigration will actually be a problem. People will have higher incomes, cheaper housing and cheaper food from deflation all at the cost of much higher income taxes to support pensioners (for Europe, US doesn't even have this problem it can keep taxes low).
>Entrepreneurship for example has basically ceased to exist in Europe and is declining significantly in the US (the most entrepreneurial country on earth). According to who? The EU has the highest innovation index on a per capita basis. The US tech sector is stronger than ever.
>zoomies vote green! :(Because we realized we can have both pollution free cities, nice forests AND continue doing research we want. All by simply having strict consumer laws that favours more expensive Western products. Why do you hate paradise?
