They want a cheap work force to steal wealth. That can be done by having a lot of supply in other words natalism or it can be done by lowering demand using technology. They obviously go for both.

Does it? The Canadian fertility rate dropped below replacement in 1971, which is also the case for most other Western countries.

There are a lot of problems with that. First of all just looking at the elderly is a problem. There are also children, which do cost a society quite a lot of resources. With a low birth rate that group is becoming smaller and smaller. Right now that dependency ratio is at 41.43%. That is actually incredibly low. The US is at 53.88% and Japan is at 69.94%. That is dependent person per worker.

Then the assumption of not keeping up with certain services. Although that is true, there is another site to it the video completely ignores. The population is shrinking and the country has a lot of high quality infrastructure. That means low housing prices, as they are already built. No need to built new railways, streets, sewage systems and the like.

That also goes for the economy. Constant worker shortages, mean the most competitive companies will pay the highest wages and out compete weaker ones. Therefore the average worker will become more competitive.

One important thing here is that South Korea has an incredibly low fertility rate. 2.1 is replacement level. So 0.7 means each generation is 2/3 smaller then the previous one. However most places in the world are above 1.4, which would just mean 1/3 less people per generation, which makes it a lot more manageable. Also again migration. The world is still above replacement level of 2.1.

In power saving mode it can run between 200 hours on the low side and 500 hours or in some cases even much longer of constant interactive use, not standby.

Okay that is insane.

https://github.com/ericjenott/Evertop

The good part is, that a lot of it is recycled and if you have the necessary skills, then it is possible to DIY them.

That one was about 160,000 USD. They are pretty expensive to built.

They currently elect leaders to a board of directors using what seems like a more complex system to allow for different groups to have a say in it.

Every $1 invested in resilient infrastructure yields a $4 return in avoided recovery costs, according to case studies published by the World Bank and the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure. FEMA estimates those cost savings can be even higher in the U. S. – and suggests federally funded climate mitigation grants “can save the nation $6 in future disaster costs for every $1 spent on hazard mitigation.”

Just saying.

Also cities change a lot. Only 35% of owner occupied housing in the US is older then 1969. Construction in the US is also an over $2trillion industry, so just changing new construction is a trillion dollar project.

Yes, but any librarian you might ask for the directory, is going to ask you what you are looking for.

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Between 1990 and 2023 CO2 emissions globally have grown by 66.27%, while GDP has grown by 179.22%. Most developed countries even had economic growth with falling emissions.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-emissions-and-gdp?country=~OWID_WRL

Batteries loose capacity over time. So “end-of-life batteries” are batteries at the end of their designed lifespan, when the capacity is at a low point.

300km range with end of life batteries and 300km/h cruise speed. With something like that most large islands can be reached from the next mainland and many seas can also be crossed, say the Caspian Sea, Persian Golf, Baltic Sea or the like.

Is this a ground effect craft or not really?

Yes and battery powered

For hardware it is relativly simple, as paying for that is normal. Raspberry Pi is a private company, but produces open source hardware. Probably the way to go, is to force all companies to do so. Right to repair is imho a good starting point.

For software the key seems to be large government or private customers. They do have a lot of money and the system not running costs them a lot. Hiring experts themself is also not always posdible. So buying in service from companies developing open source is an option.

For R&D a lot of that is done by universities and research institutions likr NASA today. That seems to me to be a good solution.

Just to expand on this. Grand Paris, which is Petite Couronne and some other municipalities bordering it, is about as large in areas as Berlin, but with nearly twice the population for example. So we are not talking about some rural or suburban part of the France.

Also it is a general French problem of not adjusting city boundaries for ages. Large French cities rarely have a border with a municipality, which is actually rural.

Can you provide an English translation please?

It has 60kWh of storage and 2kW when folded in and 4kW when not.

If you remove the stock market, you end up with over the counter or even worse total back room trading of company stock. That disadvantages small shareholders much more then big ones. So owning large companies will be totally exclusive to the super rich, making the situation even worse then it is today.

We need a ban of companies buying other companies. That takes care of mergers.

However the real problem is the lack of proper high taxes for the wealthy. That has to change, so the wealthy can loose their wealth more easily.

Military and police gear tends to be local, high quality and available as second hand. If you can tailor and it somewhat suits your style then it is a good option.

If you are able to tailor, try to find a group. They will have local knowledge and know where to find quality cloth and other products.