The payroll tax is THE funding for social security. Every penny the Social Security Fund has came from either that, or is interest on notes that that tax bought as excess funding (since by law any ex… (View Post)

Would think you could kind of fake it being either a M/T or C/T and having the other spells duplicated as the one you're playing as. People have made mods to create unusual non-vanilla (but permissib… (View Post)

2 words: (mandatory) Lab Courses. Namely science labs, but arguably anything that needs hands-on experience. My mother is and has been a chemistry professor at a university for more than 40 years. He… (View Post)

It didn't really change much from then until about the 1920s. https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/06/Mortality-rates-of-children-over-last-two-millennia… (View Post)

We didn't. Dead children. Millions of dead children. Basically your odds of living to 15 or so was probably about 40%. It's the real anchor as to why life expectancy was so low. Good news, after that… (View Post)