Society thinking that they can change their gender is a HUGE PROBLEM, but teaching kids this goes even way beyond this.

Teaching a kid that they could be born in the wrong gender is WRONG in so many ways.

it is a disease and mental illness that must stop NOW.

These kids have no idea of the repercussions that will arise from these surgeries but they will.

Sorry, just felt I needed to say it.

#Plebchain

I did.

(For seriously. I thought it was an expedient way to get down stairs by tumbling head first when I was a toddler...)

I like anchovies on pizza, too. 😅

Steak and eggs.

Also, put some lox on those bagels.

Sometimes it's good to reflect and count your blessings. #grownostr #blessings

Good morning.

I wouldn't know.

The complicated aspect about the Social Security system in the United States is that it was falsely marketed.

It's called an "entitlement" because people pay into it and are supposed to get it back like a pension, regardless of whether they are rich or poor when they retire. And so the Baby Boomer generation views any cuts to their social security as a rugpull, basically. It's not insurance or charity; it's an entitlement.

However, although it was marketed as like an entitlement/pension, that's not how the math worked out in practice. And it's because population growth is slowing. It was based on ponzi math, assuming that every generation will be bigger than the one that came before it. But the Baby Boomer generation was huge.

In addition, when Social Security was created, the retirement age was set near the average life expectancy. Many people would not live long enough to collect it, and most would collect it for a handful of years. Only a small minority of outliers would work for like 40 years and then live off social security for like 20+ years. But then over the decades, life expectancy increased by like 15 years, so the default assumption is indeed that someone can work for 40 years and then have 20+ years of retirement, even though the amount they pay into it doesn't really mathematically cover that. It's not designed for that en masse.

And so Baby Boomers had like a 3.5 worker-to-retiree ratio to support in their peak earnings years, while Millennials will have more like a 2.5 worker-to-retiree ratio or less to deal with. Which means they get a worse deal. Many Millennials don't even think they'll get it at all, despite paying into it.

That breaks up the social contract and sets up inter-generational political conflict. "Fourth Turning" stuff.

It's a big reason why "defined benefit" plans are inherently unstable; they rely on being able to predict the future.

And it's also a big reason why, when speaking about deficits, nothing stops this train.

As a millennial, I say it’s time to rugpull the boomers. Maybe they can just cut back on the Starbucks.

I reject the idea that people shouldn't care what others think about them. We are made to be social creatures. Without honor and shame society wouldn't function.

Ironically, those who say you shouldn't care about people's opinion of you often resort to name-calling, demonstrating that social esteem is inescapable.

And this is a good thing. Communication is given to us so that we can have an effect on the world around us. The serenity prayer does not mean we ought to give up and isolate ourselves, quite the opposite.

The solution to being hurt isn't to withdraw into stoicism, but to realize that God has offered a seat of honor at his table to you, an undeserving sinner.

"For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ."

This is the only escape from the tyrrany of others' opinion - not to give up caring, but to know whose opinion actually matters.

Ah, now i know why this little guy has been hanging around near the house. #grownostr #nature #RaidingTheFeeder

Thats Buster, he's the boss.

The pendulum of politics swinging Left/Right/Left/Right is not only maddening for people, it's terrible for business.

Less, much less government, would mean that change would trend towards being insignificant.

If less government affects your life, your business, your kids, your property, world peace and stuff then everyone would care less about politics.

And when the clowns change, you would care.

Everyone should be for less government.

Thankfully, bitcoin helps defund them all.

There are still 21M BTC, people will sell, but still there are less BTC than millionaires. Number of BTC will remain 21M and number of millionaires will go up.

#nature #countrylife

The rising of the sun.