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Start keeping a notebook how long tasks take, like morning routine 06-06:10. This simple trick makes you understand how much time you waste. At least it did for me. I doubt you can get 3x performance with a full time school, work & family though. Delegating family stuff doesn't work for most of us.


One does not have to retire to a first world country. Seriously, why would you even want to retire to USA? Health care, which old people tend to use, is stupid expensive.


>Seriously, why would you even want to retire to USA?

Family. Literally everyone wants to retire near their family, kids, and grandkids.


I'm Canadian, so I have no desire to retire to a place with awful health care. How does health care in second/third world countries work? Are you instantly granted all rights to health care if you retire to another nation?


>> are you instantly granted all rights to health care if you retire to another nation?

Yes, those rights being the sole right to purchase health care. Which can be very good if you have money and doesn't exist if you do not.


> Yes, those rights being the sole right to purchase health care.

But do all nations actually have that?


As you get older, and your time becomes short, you're not going to want to retire to some completely foreign place you've never lived in. You will want to be close to people that matter to you, and enjoy the comfort of familiar things. Exploring new things becomes less appealing as you age. Exploration is for the youth.


How about travel by plane? Are you willing to do that?


And then - how about not having children? An impact of a single child is greater than lifetime of eating meat by a single person.


I totally support the idea people who deny climate change should not reproduce. For two main reasons: first, to save the environment and, second, to improve the human gene pool.

I don't expect them to agree, however.


>second, to improve the human gene pool.

Yeah, everyone who disagrees with me is wrong and we should prevent them from reproducing. /s

I fully believe in climate change but your opinion that eugenics is part of the solution is out in left field and incompatible with the values of most people on this planet to put it charitably.


I probably should be more explicit when I joke.


...or you can raise them to have a net positive impact on the environment, like Ben Falk.


Give a number, if they don't accept it, leave. If I want to play games, I go to an arcade.


Why would anyone pay for news is beyond my understanding. I pay for things I enjoy, not things that make my blood boil.


Very nice, I made one for our D&D group.


Hope it works out well :)


I'd much rather pay for healthcare, infra or basically what ever benefits us, the society, than for the war industry.


As an average american citizen, you already pay for healthcare. You are not getting the bang for your buck, thats the problem.


Please, enlighten us. How is it good for the economy to take in a massive influx of people who can't read even their own language? What Sweden has, is a huge population of people who's only income is from the state and that is not going to change. If GDP growth is the key to the kind of "economic growth" we want, why are we not just taking tens of millions of said people? Without the welfare state things would be different, people would actually have to be useful/productive and pay for their own lives. Too bad that is not going to happen before the system crashes.


Sweden has done it before very successfully. Also yes there is a limit on how many people you can sustainably take in. The Swedish government put on the brakes when the system couldn't handle more.


When the system cannot handle more it is already too late. And don't compare times when everyone was illiterate with today, it is not the same background and a similar outcome is not likely.


Good for him, but why should I care what he does?


Ask yourself that question. If you find the answer is you shouldn't care, then don't click the link.


The problem is, I don't smile to people I don't know. I've sometimes smiled to babies, but then afterwards I think "Why did I do that?". If I started smiling and waving to disabled people, that would be me treating them differently than I do other people. I think that's the last thing disabled people want.


> "Why did I do that?"

It's your innate social humanity peeking out. Don't smother it.


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