Is the closure of Eipstein Island really affecting birthrates that much?
Encouraging more teen pregnancies seems like it might cause problems for the education system, but that’s okay; Fox News loves the uneducated.
Personally I suspect that the best cure for a low fertility rate is a good 60 to 100 years of declining population size. It’s worth a try anyway.
My biggest concern is not that fertility rate is low/population decline is happening, it’s that it’s happening way too quickly for society to be able to handle it.
We’re talking like 4 old people per child (estimated number). Not only would it be a massive strain on the economy to have so many elderly people/retirees to take care of, older people will also have a highly disproportionate account of political power due to their relative abundance. If it’s already such a big deal that boomers were twisting the political landscape for their gain, I shudder to think what would happen at this larger and longer scale.
All of this is going to be a breeding ground for misogyny and right-wing ideology when people start thinking that it’s [opposite gender]'s fault that they’re not living as well as they were promised by the previous generation. We’ve already seen it in South Korea, and we’re seeing it now with the rise of isolation and inceldom.
Plus, without younger people to take up the mantle, many industries that we rely on will need to downsize, and a lot of institutional knowledge will be lost. Many roles that require a “master-to-apprentice” style of learning will be lost and will be unable to recover, even if the population started growing again.
Fox News has the wrong take here, as it is wont to have. But we genuinely should be really concerned that birth rates across all developed countries are this low below replacement rate and are still dropping
Well the solution would be END FUCKING CAPITALISM ALREADY, but since none of the younger generations actually care to do so we get to enjoy a rest period on the environment, maybe enough of one to slow some of the later effects of climate change.
We’re already dead as a species within 500 years. No matter what we do CO2 PPM is going to triple by that time and that will, at the very least, eliminate higher-order thinking and shrink brain development far below what is necessary to have more than a passing visage of human society.
So maybe with fewer people we can skip the worst of the water wars (which started in 2014) and maybe even skip some of the worst of the food and migration wars (already starting, will escalate over the next five years as major producers like the us fail to produce excess thanks to shifting seasons and lack of workers).
Honestly best case scenario is natural population decline.
Even without capitalism the math doesn’t math.
If there’s only one working person for every four old people, and those four old people each need one or two caretakers a piece then there’s not enough workers to go around.
And that doesn’t count every other job in society that needs done to support the caretakers, like growing food and fixing toilets.
Pedophile parasite class is justifying their crimes
How DARE Children NOT have Sex!
-Jeffrey Epstein’s Defenders!
Conservatives spent years advocating abstinence education. They got what they want and all they can do is bitch about it. I guess what they really wanted was to fuck children though.
Ice has breeding facility for the minors they raped, they moved them to texas so its harder to get an abortion there. they are literally the plot of cylons in the reimagined series, the cylons had these “breeding farms” for women who them impregnated with cylon dna, and they also kept men around too.
Huh, guess they’re feeling brave enough to push pedophillic narratives instead of simply homophobic and transphobic ones.
Thing is, a child might be an investment for the future of society, but, for the parents, it’s just an expense. And with the cost of everything rising and wages failing to keep up, a lot of people make the realisation that they can’t afford a child.
Again, this is why they’re against abortion and want immigrants out of the country. They want a white nationalist population that are slaves to them. This is all a class war, not an immigrant or age war.
They need the poors to fight their wars and work on their factory floors.
Wanting children to fuck more is at least a little pedophilic
