Comics like this capture a shared feeling really well. Humor can be a simple way to process complicated times.
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I have a solution for the toiletpaper thing: butt showering.
So the least efficient bidet?
Get your body in a routine of popping before you shower and you never have to wipe again. Assuming you clean out your butt in the shower, of course.
That's what I meant. If your digestion does not kick into overdrive every morning upon smelling fresh coffee, what are you doing with your life?
Showering with more butts?
You take your hot and cold faucet and make the perfect mixture of water that has just the right temperature and then you wash your ass with it.
The wordplays afterwards are optional.
I think the beginning minutes of Idiocracy really sum it up.
It's not idiots multiplying. The majority of the voting public in developed countries is left-leaning. The right just know how to gerrymander the system better, and to make their media pundits more vocal
he majority of the voting public in developed countries is left-leaning.
I don't think gerrymandering alone can account for most EU countries swerving to the right these last few years. Just yesterday Portugal got a center-left and a fascist to the second round for the presidentials. Looking at 3^rd^, 4^th^, 5^th^... yeah there's gonna be one more EU fascist president.
well, you're right, there definitely is a growing trend too - but I put that down more to media manipulation of public opinion, than general idiocy spreading more than usual
Have you talked to a fash supporter recently?
Most of em are pretty thick.
The problem is not the things mentioned, but the fact that we had these and now we have decided that we don't need it
Lot of boomers in the comments continuing to live up to the stereotypes by finding new and infuriating ways to completely miss the point
Having children demonstrates one of two things: wealth, or intelligence.
On one hand, if you can afford to overcome the obstacles, children seem like a good idea, usually from family wealth, since nobody is going to become wealthy. You're either born into it, or you're extremely lucky and you win the lotto or something, which is so unlikely it's hardly worth mentioning.
On the other hand, if you're too dumb to know how fucked we all are, or you're too dumb to use protection in some form.... Well. Yay kids? Idk.
Everyone with somewhere close to an "average" IQ, or better, who isn't part of the upper class with family wealth, is basically represented here.
Maybe I am wealthy...
https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie
tl:dr; to actually afford the bare minimum costs of living in the US, the average family of 4 needs an income of of ~140k.
https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentiles/
Only the top ~29% of households in the US have that much income.
So uh, basically, 7/10ths chance the answer to the question is:
No, not unless you want to raise kids you can't actually afford to raise, provide with a decent childhood.
Wanted to do the rough math for Zürich out of curiosity. According to this website, the cost of living in Zürich for a family of four is about CHF 8500 and the median gross monthly wage in the region is CHF 7502 (for full-time employment?) according to the bfs, so it's pretty comfortable with two working parents. Even for the 10th percentile (CHF 4761 / month) it's probably doable, but you need to factor in that families with young children need to pay for daycare as well. But there are benefits and aids as well, so I'm not exactly sure how liveable that situation really is. Also, taxes might be harsh or not very, i don't know either. All I know is that sustaining a family of four with both parents earning a wage at the 10th percentile in Zürich is at least very stressful.
Also, I'm kinda sceptical about that cost of living calculation. That would equal around $130'000 a year which is lower than I would have guessed when compared to the $140'000 estimate for the USA, since cost of living in Switzerland and especially in Zürich are generally notoriously high.
TLDR: Most people in Switzerland are relatively well-off.
Interesting!
Would you know where to find just the average/median income of a household, instead of an individual?
That would be closer to the same rough math I'm doing with the US figures.
If you were to try to set this up for another scenario, not a family of 4, but say, a single mom or dad with one kid, well then all the numbers change significantly.
And yeah, the ... the whole mess of it is... who actually qualifies for what actual benefits, at what income levels?
A huge problem with the way the US is set up (the article goes into this) is that basically you end up with multiple glass ceilings that you have to break through.
You have to increase your income by substantial, not incremental amounts, for the net income gain to actually offset the benefits you now lose from only slightly breaching some income threshold.
So the whole system actually functions to disincentivize or punish people who... 'succeed' more... but not enough more.
Now, take that as your base scenario, and now... you tell me:
How much debt does it make sense for you to go into, to get a college degree, that... may or may not actually result in you either... staying at the same income level, only slightly breaching some threshold/glass ceiling, or perhaps, substantially breaching that threshold/glass ceiling?
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