@Bob_Smith I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff, I'd just be talking vibes. But I will say: any socio-cultural factors influencing the decline are themselves the result of economic processes, and so can't be talked about as independent causes.
@TeensieFreedom@Logo_Daedalus Yeah I had the morning brain fog. Still, it seems ridiculous to press red on "pragmatic" grounds when it's so obvious everyone would press the "altruism" button. "Here's two buttons, ones the color of the devil and it says 'be evil' on it, which one do you press?"
I am like a reptile, my temperature drops dramatically as the night approaches and I remain in a sluggish state till sunrise. If someone sleeps beside me, I parasitically leech their warmth. Like a snake on a rock. Frozen to stupor. I run just below fever in daylight without fail
@papayastandards The other option he gives is wasting your entire life away for a cause you know deep down is just a refuge from women and their judgement. But that takes longer