You can't argue morality with these people; it needs to be dollars. Mark my words, our economy will tank and it won't just be because of tariffs, but a massive drain on population growth.

We've already entered the era where birth rates are slowing due to increased education and modern conveniences. That genie's out of the bottle. You can't go back by making things worse, you need to make more incentives on top of what exists already.

You can only squeeze so much from a lemon, and you can only squeeze so much from your populace. The oligarchs want more capital, but they don't understand how to extract it efficiently. Mass deportations, criminalizing abortion care, regressive taxes, eliminating social safety nets?

Now I have the next 9 days off and I'm going to try to get through another 5 or books in that time.

I'm about halfway through Nexus by Yuval Harari, hoping to finish that, too.

Just because you're right doesn't mean you have to say it.