US auto makers failed at making 4 cylinder engines compared to Japan. So they consolidated around the v8 which they did really well. Everything else is a result of marketing and affordability over the years.

I can say for certainty that I'm still in the US because of my kids. The cost of emigrating with children is just too much without going full refugee.

In the past it was more because of competition. It's not that companies started offering less, they just stopped increasing what they would offer, and still got the people they wanted. Because there is always someone more desperate.

More recently it's been greed. It shows up as sustained high profit margins you'll see primarily in tech companies. Outside of the tech industry the only issue is how long the market or government takes to correct it. Politics around the oil industry being an example.

Stop making assumptions. You're reading an entire ideology into publicly available data, then trying to argue with reality.

Look at the moon on a misty night, you'll see the full circle around it. Kinda tricky to have the right Moon and weather at the same time though.

Fertility is a U shape across income. High birth rates for the very poor, and very rich, not so much in the middle. At the moment, the largest absolute number of births is in the middle class, due to that being the largest demographic, not the most fertile.

There's a large nature/nurture debate to be had of course. The main point though, is that those with the most capability are very often the ones who self filter themselves. Leading to more poverty, as the less capable over breed themselves into crime statistics.

The ops video is the remake.

That forum is part of a right wing grooming system. It's best to just block them and move on.

The rate of attrition is lower than the rate of growth. Overall the population in poverty isn't decreasing, just being made more miserable.

The logic of not buying oil from a country you're supporting a war against?

It's more to help Putin with a big dump of cash. Russia is running out of more than diesel.