It's a Dog's World Now
Their working days are over. They neither guard, nor hunt nor herd. They have convinced humans that they should have pet dogs and treat them like children. Meanwhile, real children are disappearing.
Friday, November 15th, 2024
Bill Bonner, writing today from Baltimore, Maryland
Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
—Ann Landers
Sitting next to us in a Bedford Street coffee shop was a large middle-aged woman with a small dog on a leash.
“Here darling... have some of this.”
She was feeding the dog a ham and cheese croissant... the same thing we had just bought, for $12.78.
Down the street came an oriental woman with a terrier on a leash. She marched along briskly, the dog keeping up.
From the other direction came a man in a jogging outfit. He too had a dog on a leash, this one a Great Dane, who pulled him along.
“No pets allowed,” said the sign on the door of the pastry shop. “Except personal support animals.”
Inside, was a yellow lab, wagging its tail. On the other end of its leash was a couple, neither of whom showed any sign of impairment.
“I wish I was a rich man’s pet dog,” an old boss used to say. He was in charge of the painting crew for a small builder. One summer, he hired us to do the high trim work he no longer wanted to do.
That was fifty years ago. And now, the world — or at least that part of the world represented by Brooklyn, New York — is full of them. Rich men’s pet dogs, that is. We spent last weekend in the city, where the canine kingdom has pulled off a remarkable triumph. Their working days are over. They neither guard, nor hunt nor herd. Instead, they have convinced humans that they should have pet dogs and treat them like children.
Meanwhile, real children are disappearing.
Grosso modo, sub-Saharan African and Arab nations have the highest fertility rates; the average Nigerian woman has five children. East Asia has the lowest. In South Korea, for example, the statistical average for births per woman is 0.8.
At that rate, the South Korean population will be cut in half by the end of the century. In neighboring Japan, the population has been falling for the last fifteen years and the president warns that the country “may not be able to sustain a functioning society.”
Europe and the US are somewhere between the extremes, but new births, to native-born women, are generally less than replacement level. Russia has a fertility rate of only 1.4 births per woman. This is so alarming that Russian lawmakers have proposed to ban night-time internet use. The fertility rate for New York State is 1.7 children per woman. That is already well below the 2.1 ‘replacement rate.’ But in the New York metro area, the rate is the lowest in the state.
And in the USA, guess how many net new jobs have been given to native-born Americans over the last five years. The answer is ‘zero.’ Not because there has been a shortage of jobs. In short supply instead were the ‘native-born Americans.’ The Wall Street Journal:
More women in the 35-to-44 age range across all races, income levels, employment statuses, regions and broad education groups aren’t having children, according to research by Luke Pardue at nonprofit policy forum the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.
Birthrates among 35- to 44-year-olds give demographers who study fertility an early look into millennials’ changing approach to parenthood. But these researchers also look closely at women over 40, reasoning that if a woman doesn’t have a child by then, she is more likely to remain childless.
Walking around the streets of Brooklyn, we saw hundreds of young women of childbearing age. But few bearing children. We saw only one tiny baby... and he was carried by his father in a front-mounted holster.
“It’s a dogs’ world now,” says Elizabeth. The dogs are well fed. They’re given vaccines, supplements, and organic food. They are enrolled in training programs... and given emotional counseling when necessary. And they’ve even trained owners to trail behind them and pick up their poop.
“Some people around here even arrange playdates for their dogs. ” explains our local source. “They take them to the parks where they meet up with their doggie friends.”
“And they become so attached to their pooches that they can’t go anywhere without them. They put them in the shopping carts when they go to the food stores. They hold them in their laps at the theater.
“I even know one family that has a blind dog. They take him out for walks, guiding him so he doesn’t run into signs or trees. They are seeing-eye humans working for the dog.”
Regards,
Bill Bonner
Research Note, by Dan Denning
Below is a two-year chart of Super Micro Computer Inc. [SMCI]. At one point (in March of this year) the company was up over 1,300% since the beginning of 2023. As of this morning, the stock is STILL up 115% in that time. Recent events are troubling. What events?
On June 30th, SMCI delayed the filing of its 10-K for the fiscal year. On October 30th, the accounting firm of Ernst and Young publicly announced that it had resigned as SMCI’s auditor a week earlier, on October 24th. On Wednesday, SMCI delayed the filing of its 10-Q. The company received a letter from the Nasdaq Stock Market on September 17th, informing it that it could be de-listed from the exchange if it doesn’t comply with listing rules and file its financial statements.
The 60-day deadline is Monday, November 18th. SMCI is Nvidia’s [NVDA] third-largest customer. Nvidia has the largest market capitalization of any American stock, at $3.5 trillion. By comparison, Japan’s Nikkei 225 Index has a total market cap of $4.65 trillion. Japan has the second-largest stock market in the MSCI’s All-World Index.
As a lifelong dog owner and lover, I enjoyed today's article - particularly because it was a break from the garbage we got earlier this week. Reading the comments I can see that many people are not dog lovers, which is fine, to each his own. I would say that for people who don't have children, pets most likely mean much more on a personal and emotional level than they do to people that do have children. Just my opinion, as are all my posts.
PS - Reviewing mainstream media over the last five days has been extremely enjoyable, while also extremely enlightening. Be prepared to be bombarded nonstop with the false narrative that everything Donald Trump wants to accomplish and everyone Donald Trump selects for Leadership is going to result in the end of the world and either the policy or the individual is 100% anti-government, anti-democracy and anti-freedom. It's coming and you can tell by the way they are squealing like stuck little piglets already.
If you feel yourself getting down and even beginning to wonder if the "Narrative" could be at all true, just remember how the domestic enemy "media" has lied to our faces on 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 issue for virtually the past 8 years. These people are desperate because they are hemorrhaging audience, fewer and fewer Citizens are believing their Lies and a DOJ/Court System that is actually about Justice would see them lose their shirts, pants and panties from Defamation Judgements that don't go their way. They are vicious, evil and cornered. Consume media accordingly...
Perhaps one of the reasons for a decline in family size is the economic environment. I grew up in the 50s and 60s and there were tons of kids in my working class neighborhood. Practically all of us walked home for lunch because it was the golden age when only one income earned was necessary. Now with the need for two incomes new parents enter a real rat race: daycare, pre and after school programs, get home from work, make dinner, help with homework, practically no time to relax. Now couple that with a excessively materialistic and narcissistic. culture.