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Depends on the area. Lots of countryside areas have high unemployment statistically, but are actually very chill because there are so few people, and most of them are retirees. With adequate internet connectivity they can be perfect for remote workers.

"Work ethics" = Spending the best years of your life doing something you don't like, just to make shareholders richer while you remain relatively poor.

As an extreme example we have South Korea, which is essentially a dying society with fertility rate of less than 1. So no, "work ethics" as understood in East Asia is not a good thing for society or individual.

Yes, lots of giants for a country with GDP lower than that of Italy. Perhaps they refer to the bellies of the oligarchy that owns the companies.

The potential huge impact of climate change could very well start the nuclear war. Masses of hungry, broke and desperate people don't do good for politics as we've seen again and again in the past. One can only hope that they turn against corporations and the 1% instead of electing fascists.

Living in inner city might make you a social hub if you're an extroverted person in the first place. For an introvert like me it didn't make much of a difference, though I did find a spouse, which probably wouldn't have happened in the countryside.

I think everyone should move away at some point of their life, but permanent city-life isn't for everyone. I simply enjoy gardening, small-scale farming, tinkering and trekking in forests way more than any services cities offer.

Apart from farming, there is an obvious source of income - tourism services for urban people who want to relax in a more peaceful environment. Lots of old and small farms in my country have moved to that after farming wasn't profitable anymore.

Also, there's something beetween between big city suburbs and middle of nowhere. Smaller towns can offer a healthy amount of jobs and services, especially ones that are within commute distance from larger ones. Moving from a village/town of 4000 people to one of 140 000 didn't really change my daily life much, apart from having more variety of food in supermarket, and much more expensive and worse housing.

How exactly is Reddit a "porn filled shit hole"? I don't see any porn in the vast majority of subreddits. Nobody forces you to visit the rest, and they are typically even marked adult-only.

Besides, are porn and racism really the only questionable things in social media? What about extreme violence, videos where real people get shot or blown up? Somehow messed up American society thinks that violence is quite okay thing for people to see, but nudity and porn are not.

Elm has lots of great ideas, but if I were making decisions in a company, I wouldn't use it in production for anything big and long-living. Simply too much of a risk in terms of support, and finding developers with experience using it.

Only contacts I've had about Elm positions have been about rewriting existing Elm apps to something else.

Software devs may always move somewhere with lower living costs. Good for lots of people who have been forced to move into places like Silicon Valley with crazy expensive housing, even though they would rather live elsewhere.

I think one would have to be mad to love many ordinary software jobs out there. Being a cog in the machine, with average salary, and a job to maintain boring legacy apps, now that really doesn't sound fun to me. It might be a decent job, but not something to love.

Studying AND "living a little" at the same time isn't that hard with all the exchange programs EU universities provide. Traveling within Europe is also very cheap. It's mainly just an excuse for people who don't want children that much, which is now more common due to cultural changes as well.

Expensive housing on the other hand is a real problem. Requiring a long degree for nearly everything is also dumb.

Here in Finland we have generous paternity leave that people aren't afraid to use, yet birth rates are very similar to Japan. IMO it's partially cultural, but also lack of stability in employment, having to spend too many years studying useless degrees and expensive housing (compared to wages) in cities contribute.

I think the sensible model is to eventually get rid of most car traffic in city centres, and concentrate the parking spots in suburbs, with adequate public transport to denser areas.

Personally I couldn't live without a car. Not because I need it much in the city right now, but because I need it to reach my relatives and meaningful places in the countryside, far away from any public transport. Cost of living is also something to consider, not everyone can afford a proper house within reach of public transport, and living in a flat sucks.

Bike theft is a big problem at least here in Finland, especially for expensive bikes.