Probably the simplest thing is to limit population growth with extensive contraception and female education campaigns in the developing world, replacing food aid.
Or buy a semi-autonomous truck that can be used in convoy mode - one driver in the lead, two trucks behind following. Once it gets to a city they all get drivers to navigate to the depot. This is already a feature of the Tesla Semi.
Europeans have been responsible for the majority of scientific advances we all enjoy today.
Native Americans died from diseases and conflicts with a superior group of people. Competition for resources is a core driver of evolution and is nothing new for any species on Earth.
In business it is common to dispense with non-performing assets. Can entire countries and peoples be non-performing? This might sound harsh, but in the era of resource depletion and global warming, mother nature herself is going to be harsh.
I think our aid should be wholly in the form of contraception, not food. A ballooning African population is good for nobody.
Because their big business mates bribe them into doing it. However, Australia is not a corrupt country, so the 'bribe' will mean a high-paid consulting or executive job after their career in politics.
Additionally most of the wages being depressed are actually for entry-level jobs, and the poor have no voice in most democracies since they are not effectively organised.
Its a common scam to get a student visa (often with fake English test results etc) which allows you to enter the country and work 20 hours a week, then to actually work 60 hours and have the boss pay you for 20. This results in payments 1/3rd the level of minimum wage, but this is still attractive enough for poor Indian males to want to come and do it in the hundreds of thousands.
Plus Australia is has very generous welfare for the elderly (aka pensions) and a sub-replacement fertility level, so there is always pressure to maintain that ponzi scheme with more taxable bodies.
Oh, and in addition to all that, the people that are opposing this type of mass immigration are being called racist.
In New Zealand and Australia Indian and Chinese workers are essentially seen as replaceable due to the huge numbers of them migrating to both countries (those countries make up the #1 and #2 sources of migrants respectively).
The whole point of the migration schemes are to get workers for cheap and to put downwards pressure on wages. A very high skill level is not really required, and big companies will just throw bodies at jobs and rotate out anyone who can't make the cut.
The IT contracting shops there are called 'body shops' for this very reason.
Just sign up for a degree at a degree mill and you'll get a student visa and an easy route to permanent residency.
New Zealand (and Australia) don't care about quality migrants, just quantity, to keep up demand for housing (both countries have housing-bubble-based economies) and to add extra consumption to national GDP.
The migrants they really want are Indians who can put downwards pressure on wages. Go to Auckland, its basically an Asian city.
Go somewhere like Poland, Romania or Portugal and hire your own workforce. You won't even be in the ass-end of the world like NZ.
This just seems like a good idea independent of labour costs.
We don't need a planet of 16 billion with so many workers performing simple tasks that could easily be removed with improved processes like at this restaurant.
A planet of 2 billion with cheap land and cheap food for a happy, intelligent, beautiful and productive human workforce and lots of natural habitat for flora and fauna would be a better place. Even if we have to find our own table at a restaurant.
Ah yes, I have a solution for that. Link tax breaks to having children, and penalise the childless wealthy. Eventually society will be mostly comprised of the descendents of the successful, and inequality will be reduced.
Millionaire parents having one child concentrate their wealth into a small part of society. They should instead be having multiple. Success and intelligence has a genetic component, so you're improving the overall health of society through such measures as well.
Otherwise there are far less radical things than breaking up and dividing wealth (which has worked horribly in the past - look at the USSR). Simply breaking up large monopolistic tech companies such as Valve, Google and Amazon for example, as was done for Bell Telecom.
Cut social security and payroll taxes, deliver money right back into the hands of the workers. If more people are employed the need for these services is lessened anyway.
With advances in medical care, people can keep working until they are 70 or 80, at a lower rate eg. part time. Work keeps the brain active and prevents degeneration.
Finally reduce the cost of land and rents which is the major cost of life for the majority of workers. Do this by limiting immigration and keeping the country at a stable population, not growing endlessly.
If people truly need welfare or Government services, such a subsidised tuition, healthcare or a cash handout, then tally the paid amounts against their individual tax file, and claim the amounts back by increasing their tax level by single digits. If there is still an unpaid amount at death, then claim it from their estate.
Doing all this you can substantially cut the welfare state and encourage work. The end goal shouldn't be a UBI or negative income, it should be that 20 hours of basic work should be enough to allow you to afford a basic life.
Miner demand was about 50% of sales. Admittedly this is because a lot of gamers were turned off by high prices.
That demand has evaporated since the price of Bitcoin alternatives (eg. Ethereum) has plummeted, and the difficulty of mining is still very high since now ASICs can mine many coins more efficiently than consumers GPUs.
Plus it seems like Nvidia are stuck with a lot of low-end chips. Many miners were buying things like the 1060.
However, Nvidia have no direct competition in the GPU space anymore. They can hold off their next product launch for months and wait for their inventory to clear.
I think its a general cultural disdain for the environment within some cultures.
Most of the world's plastic pollution coming out of 10 Asian and African rivers for example.
This is why arguments from educated, intelligent and responsible Westerners that they themselves shouldn't have children in order to reduce the impact on the planet are flawed.
If not for their children with the same skills and views, who else will reign in the Asians and Africans who are busy destroying their environments?
The first thing that the world needs is for all countries to reach a stable population level. This means hugely reducing fertility in some developing countries, mostly by making sure contraception is widely available and that women are educated enough to know how to use it.
1. There is no common language so hiring is typically restricted to one country.
2. Taxes are very high, particularly social security taxes that must be paid by the employer. Firms are very reluctant to create jobs.
3. A lot of bureaucracies are old and inefficient.
4. For the same reasons, products are difficult to scale. You can go from a local product in San Francisco to a national product in the USA relatively easily. But in the EU you are dealing with multiple languages, cultures, country bureaucracies in order to make the same jump.
The best thing for the EU would be to get everyone speaking English at least as a second language. Then, to require all official forms, Government engagement etc. to be in the national language and English.
Imagine you go from working in Warsaw to Berlin. A distance of only 570km, but you need to be able to speak Polish to deal with Polish bureaucracy, English to work at the multinational firm, and German to deal with German bureaucracy.
This marks the death of any hope that Valve will ever manually curate the store. If they can't be bothered removing school shooter or hentai games, they will definitely never be bothered to remove games that are just plan bad.
The best hope of cleaning up the store is to increase the Steam Direct fee to $500. This will remove the low-end junk that is clogging it up and allow more breathing space for legitimate commercial games. I don't see how having thousands of games which sell single digits worth of copies is beneficial for anyone - Valve, Game Devs, or Gamers.
Valve should also have an annual clear out of games which have sold fewer than 50 copies.
For example, 25% of ocean pollution comes from just 10 rivers (all in Asia or Africa)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas...
Probably the simplest thing is to limit population growth with extensive contraception and female education campaigns in the developing world, replacing food aid.