Declines of Various Types

Worse than that, feminism has transitioned from a movement primarily about equality to merely another front in women’s intrasexual competition, which has intensified enormously as the number of suitable (by their assessment) men has declined.

That has not only made actual feminism as practiced vastly worse, but has done a number on women’s mental health. Combine that with social media and smartphone cognitohazards and women today are totally cooked. Especially in the US.

Lose Your Shirt

If we still made and sold shirts made using Medieval-level technology, a single one would cost around $5,000 if the spinners and weavers made only the US federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

Yes, those Middle Ages shirts would be higher quality. Not enormously so, but they were designed to last for obvious reasons.

Automation and technology can now create a shirt that costs ~$25. No matter what degrowther nonsense you believe, that’s amazing.

Cover Up

If the Sahara desert were covered in solar panels, could it power the entire earth?

Assuming no loss in transmission just for ease-of-calculation purposes, covering ~12% of the Sahara Desert with solar panels, assuming 40% (typical) density, would supply the energy needs of the entire planet currently (pun intended). Nope, not just electricity use. All energy.

And no, I didn’t read the comments. I don’t care what they say as they are almost alway wrong about questions like this.

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