12 Billion consumers is enough.
They are out of their minds.
TealDragon
joined 1 year ago
It was originally an analogy for what we have done with the age of consent. I was in a discussion with a 21 year old who was terrified of sex. Gen Z is lonely and depressed like no other in recorded history. We messed up really bad with the overprotective helicopter parenting and the intense infantilization at ever higher ages.
Apparently you didn't read what I wrote.
All throughout human history teens have been getting married, starting families, running businesses, hunting, fishing, babysitting, and doing just fine. Sometime in the last 20 years, however, somebody decided that their brains are bad, so we have to treat them like they are children. Neurology has produced a giant pile of fishy results that don't prove anything at all. You can join the British Army at 16 years of age. You can join the US Army at 17. We all know that teen brains work just fine, but when we want an excuse for being bigots and treating them like dirt, suddenly we've got "proof" that their brains are retarded. It's a giant lie.
None of that contradicts anything that I wrote.
The brain is by far the most poorly understood organ in the human body. Tons of fMRI studies came out and made headlines over the last 20 years. All of them got debunked. There is ZERO solid evidence of "the parts of the brain that govern self inhibition and impulse control".... that's just something that everyone wants to believe, so they tell themselves that neurology shows that. But the data simply isn't there. Age limits on various activities in various countries have literally nothing to do with brain science. They are based on tradition, odd local superstitions, or practical realities. They almost never have any rational justification at all. For centuries bigots been using "their brains are defective" to justify horrendous treatment of women, Africans, etc They always use pseudo-science to back up their obnoxious claims Today they use exactly the same shit arguments to demean and degrade young adults (aka teens)
None of that is true.
There is no shortage of people.
Fertility is way too high.