I am not sure about the stats in the UK particularly but the "consanguinity rate" per capita wise is a lot higher in the middle east.
"The consanguinity rate in the UAE has increased from 39% to 50.5% in one generation."
From what I have learned, it has a lot to do with "wealth preservation". Something important I guess if you are a millionaire sheikh and get regular allowances from the ruling royal family according to your family title/name.
I find it utterly amazing that a country like the USA does not have nationwide high-speed rail and mass transit in every major city (that works for everyone).
Comparing with Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia) and certain EU countries (Vienna, Netherlands, etc.), it just shocks me how much people need a car for everything. Even a visitor needs to rent a car to properly go about their business.
Back in the 1990s there was a comic strip in Z Magazine where some child care workers were commiserating on their inability to afford childcare and that somehow the problem was caused by "capitalism".
A lack of "capitalism" is more like it. The automobile changed the world because Henry Ford spent money to build a car factory so productive that the workers there could afford to buy the cars they make and thus the car changes the world. In the case of child care there isn't any technical or business innovation that can make it affordable enough for the person who does the job so it will remain forever a service only the rich can afford.
From this and several other comments here, I think the next big play here is to build something to completely eradicate the bugs that are generated by these AI tools.
> AI arrived at a time when the shine has worn off the tech. Google got evil, Twitter was eviscerated by a clown who likes to make nazi salutes, Facebook plumbed depths of enshittification previously unknown to science.
Perhaps the most underrated point here. To add to this point, people think Gen Z love tech by default, they were first generation to make Facebook accounts as kids etc. but I actually believe they have grown up to be the most tech skeptic generation.
All those kids that made their Facebook accounts faking their age, deleted those accounts before actually turning 18.
Tech industry and tech founders are not seen as hip and cool anymore.
Yep, the whole industry is not in good place right now but tech is still a sure-fire way of netting $1Mil+ after a 5-10 year career, with the most freedom and in the most flexible way.
Several people I know who went to a good university and landed big tech/quant jobs early became millionaires (liquid 1,000,000) after 5 to 7 years. Some got lucky and reached this milestone way earlier.
Medicine takes 12+ years of education before bearing any fruit and finance has very little freedom.
"The consanguinity rate in the UAE has increased from 39% to 50.5% in one generation."
From what I have learned, it has a lot to do with "wealth preservation". Something important I guess if you are a millionaire sheikh and get regular allowances from the ruling royal family according to your family title/name.
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