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The two most inefficient groups in our society are children and retirees. The natural progression is to put the children to work and kill off the retirees.

Humans thousands of years ago had the support of their entire community. A modern human can maybe rely on their spouse. Life as a rugged individual is stressful.

Animation has always been about minimizing cost and time while looking passable, and those are exactly AI's strengths.

Supporting industries losing economies of scale drives up costs. If you have fewer tailors, local cloth suppliers become insolvent. This leads to the few tailors having to import cloth and increase prices.

It's good to see people finally admitting America is incapable of being greater than Bangladesh or Ethiopia.

Does the change over from home manufactured children to imported mirror the offshoring of North American industry? This could be an inevitable outcome of optimizing for labor costs.

Issue: Eradication of humanity.

Cause: PEBKAC

Solution: Eradication of humanity.

Looking at the chart Bogotá has an annual daily mean of 14.4°C, and is fairly consistent throughout the year. Berlin's is 9.9°C with hotter summers and colder winters. To make a definitive statement we would have to know whether spikes of hot temperatures or consistent warmer temperatures are worse for violence.

There have been studies showing a positive correlation between temperature and violent crime. [1] It's possible this behavior is just a manifestation of living in a warmer country.

Perhaps if you swapped the populations of Bogotá and Berlin you would find the new Berliners becoming more "chill" and the new Bogotans becoming more "hot-blooded."

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30830288/

That sounds like the view of an anti-progress luddite. Be careful where you make such statements.

Given how advertising currently works our smartest minds will dedicate their lives to force them upon you.

Cultures that are self sustaining will exist into the future. If the Korean culture isn't one of them, so be it.

Public funding for the arts exceeds spending by Hollywood and the video game industry?

A common person isn't able to do what the author did, meaning they'll have to reach for the app store. Conveniently, Apple gets a cut of sales on the app store. The conflicts of interest are clear.