Seems like war is going just great for Russia:
Quote:Russia considers working age of 12 to solve wartime jobs crisis
Russia is considering lowering the country’s working age to 12 and reopening Soviet child labour camps to solve a jobs crisis driven by the war in Ukraine.
In an interview with the radio station Govorit Moskva, Ms Yaroslavskaya said: “It seems to me that the return of labour camps is a realistic scenario that our children will support.”
She cited her own experience working in the summer in a Soviet youth camp, saying: “In the 7th grade [year 8], we were taken to weed tomatoes in 40-degree heat in a barrack in the middle of the fields.”
“We survived, and moreover, I brought home 120 rubles,” the commissioner boasted.
Economists have warned that Russia’s labour shortage is so severe that it threatens to drag down its already flagging economy for years.
Although Vladimir Putin has boasted of historic low unemployment rates of 2 per cent, a constriction of available workers has made desperate employers raise wages in an effort to draw staff, increasing costs for consumers and squeezing profits for businesses.
The country’s economy needs 1.5 million additional workers to balance the labour market, Bloomberg estimated, while the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs has projected a deficit of three million workers up to 2030.
The demographic crisis has been driven by a record low birth rate, the emigration of up to one million mostly educated young professionals to dodge mobilisation after the full-scale invasion, and an exceptionally high mortality rate of young men on the front line.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...ob-crisis/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
