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A comment on Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 million. Parent comment

Re:Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 million by jakderrida on Monday January 01, 2024 @10:50AM (#38832638)
> There are people who build civilisations, and there are people who have been content to idle in squalor for hundreds of thousands of years.

Jesus H Christ! Is that really what you think? They're poor because they don't have access to the same resources. Not because they are genetically predisposed to squalor and born incapable of coping in "civilisations", a word many of them would have spelled correctly.

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Re:Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 million by ErasticBrub on Monday January 01, 2024 @10:54AM (#38832683)
The xenophile paradox: those people are the way they are because we stole all their resources, and they're the way they are because they never had any resources!

There's nothing wrong with my spelling fyi, that's a regional difference.

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