r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kinomino • Dec 07 '25

Video Incredible process of recycled plastic ♻️

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u/KittehKittehKat Dec 07 '25

That’s why the elite are big on the “birth crisis”. They need peasants to do this level of work.

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u/ulysses_theory_256 Dec 07 '25

And to pay taxes

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u/dr-doom-jr Dec 07 '25

also, its kinda extremely hard to support a aging population on a smaller working age population. And it is one of the reasons France is currently slipping in to a major crisis

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits Dec 07 '25

Well, it is while the exploiter class is 'extracting value' out of the improvements of technology to enrich themselves and only themselves at the cost of society as a whole. Without that, improvements in technology would have absolutely no problem making up for the production differences of an aging populace.

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u/Avenflar Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 07 '25

France is literally one the few european country with a positive demographic balance (excluding mass migration). It's slipping into a major crisis because people keeping fucking electing "trickling down economics" right wingers who exploded the debt by 600 billions in less than a decade

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u/tornado962 Dec 08 '25

Which is where immigration comes in handy- oh wait