Quote from: iamnotback on February 06, 2017, 07:34:45 AM

If we don't reproduce well above replacement rates, our culture dies. Sorry these are damned facts.

This is nonsense IMO. You don't defeat r-selection populations by becoming an r-selection population yourself. Earth is generally overpopulated in terms of sustainability and k-selection populations are naturally going to taper down to compensate. They will reproduce more when there is actually an abundance of space, resources, and reason to. It is not a permanent death spiral. K-individuals are not going to have 4 kids while living inside a tiny apartment somewhere with no means to support them.

It seems obvious K-selection populations never could have existed in the past without using strategies of going to war against or containing r-selection populations/isolating themselves against them. That is what will happen in the future as well. The "soft-warfare" against r-selection populations started long ago with innocuous tactics such as "white flight", but will eventually ramp up into full scale warfare as certain groups act as white people stalkers - following whites around and demanding free welfare or violence if they don't give in to subsidize their dysfunctional r-lifestyle.

Quote from: OROBTC on February 07, 2017, 03:13:43 AM

http://www.goldgeologist.com/mercenary_musings/musing-170206-The-46-Year-Record-of-Platinum-Gold-Ratios.pdf

Platinum, a speculation of interest?

Gotta love this quote:

"From a compendium of sources, the average crustal abundance of both metals is around 4 ppb. Based
solely on this fact, platinum and gold should trade at about the same price."

Yet going by this logic, silver is coming out of the ground at only a 9:1 ratio to gold, so silver would be vastly more undervalued using his logic and there would be no reason to talk about platinum at all.