These stores are not supposed to prepare you for three days of resilience in advance.
They are meant to be available as reliable and functioning stores throughout a crisis period. Your go-to destination for purchasing vital goods during the crisis.
There is also no reason to believe that the fertility rates would go to zero. To an outside observer, we might simply be reaching a new equilibrium.
The idealized Star Trek society of production automation and exploratory self fulfillment might only be possible, and sustainable, if we are a billion people.
That is still plenty enough people to continue our ever accelerating and vast exploration of culture, science and space.
90k USD ist just shy of 66k Euro, which is by no means unheard of for an experienced developer.
I know personal anecdotes doesn't count for much, but I turned down several 80k offers in Berlin. I would expect salaries in Munich to be 10-15% higher due to cost of living.
I really liked this, except the fact that - for me - it was translated into Danish.
I have only read Douglas' works in English, and the phrase is "Don't Panic" - it's not "Undgå Panik", which is a lousy translation that literally means Avoid Panic.
And robustness is often the static plastic bubble that hides in itself, never accomplishing much in the real world.
State is too often the real world.
Mind you, I like robustness. It's like the cinder blocks I use to build my house, each robust and contained in itself. I just can't disregard state when stacking my cinder blocks on top of each other; the flexing and distribution of load is an emergent state that I have to consider when building each cinder block.
