We don’t need more slaves to capitalism.
And a falling human birth rate is good for the environment
A man working an average job used to earn enough to buy an average house and comfortably support his wife and kids.
Now you need two people in full-time work just to pay rent to the landlord.
The problem is inequality of wealth and the solution is make work pay.
No no, you’re wrong. The problem is taxes are too high and the people on the absolute top don’t get enough money. If we just make them a bit richer, the wealth will finally start trickling down on us.
Wait! I think I feel it trickling down right now!
Nope. Just piss. Again.
And too many immigrants. Surely if we keep them out, all those low wage manual labor jobs will still get done, and our population will increase
Executives: AI is the answer. We’ll replace people and won’t have to listen to them whining about how hungry they are.
I keep hearing stories about falling birth rates, USA, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and on and on.
The articles often pose many questions about why younger generations dont seem to care about having kids, but very few articles actually say the real reasons:- Being able to afford a house or stable long term rent without either option competing for money to buy food or other essentials
- Further to this the cost of a child once you can get by with enough money for the above
- Climate change & future conditions for their children anxiety
The first one is the main reason we could afford to have kids.
We were able to buy our first house because of three things. First the housing market crash in 2008-9. My wife’s car was totaled by a rich bitch in a Mercedes. Our rented duplex was robbed and we had renters insurance. The combination of insurance payments and cheaper prices allowed us to purchase our first home.
My house payment hasn’t changed since 2009. It made up 36% of our take-home income then. Today it makes up less than 11%. I pay less per month than it costs to rent a 1 bedroom apartment in my area.
The older I get the more I see that landlords are a parasite on society. They extract huge amounts of wealth from the suffering of others.
Totally jealous, but I’m happy for you. I’m glad you get to own a home.
education and healthcare costs too
Also, wouldn’t increasing the population cause more inflation. Like if you look at Japans decline in Japanese born citizens it overlaps with the “lost years” of economic growth, which was a surprisingly stable period where depreciation ruled the economy… Prices for every day items were stable for decades on end.
The capitalist class only cares about birthrate for productivity. Don’t blame us for not caring about reduced productivity when most of us get a tiny fraction of the benefits of productivity. Also, what happened to all the shrieking about overpopulation? It’s all just fearmongering to drive people to act in ways to benefit the capitalist class. I’m tired, leave me alone.
It’s also dumb legacy thinking.
We’re in the process of creating a labor force that threatens to put the majority of people already existing out of work such that we need to figure out how to restructure society in a post-labor era.
What the fuck do we need a high birthrate for?
you want more kids make houses affordable and give people time off from work.
If you want to further subjugate women so rich people can get away with more creepy sex crimes then you do what the GOP is currently doing.
Hey, falling birth rate means lots of empty houses. House prices will go down. Problem solved!
Bullshit, we have lots of empty houses now because they are owned by corporations to pad out their balance sheets.
It was a joke.
Even if I could afford to have kids (which I can’t) or believed in forcing anyone to have to be alive without consent (which is impossible), there’s no way I could ethically justify making somebody have to live in what is probably The last century ever of human civilization.
Wealthy employers shrug over falling standard of living and lack of affordable housing and food
My kids don’t want kids. I’m cool with that. It’s not my decision and I’m definitely not interested in playing grandma daycare.
Fewer people means increased wages. Fuck em.
I’m very happy that I don’t have kids. I still have no idea what compels people to have kids these days. They must not know the things I know.
Every now and then I see a parent having a tender moment with their child and I smile. I then reflect on whether my vasectomy/shirk of parenthood was the right choice.
I always come to the conclusion that it was. Perhaps when I’m older I will feel differently but I just can’t imagine that in my life for a long time.
Completely agree.
Look at an ocean temperature graph if you are even entertaining the idea of bringing new life into the world.
There’s over 300 million people in the US, I’m not at all concerned about falling birth rates.
The only reason economists say immigration can offset falling birthrate. Is because the system is designed for low wages to keep the system running
I heard on NPR that every day, like 30,000 30 something’s come into parenthood. Just imagine that number not getting a job, but having a single baby each.
The problem with capitalism is you run out of other people’s labour
It’s like a pyramid scheme or something.
Don’t play the game if it’s rigged
You don’t want to pay ever increasing prices on one of the most expensive undertakings a person (or couple) can do… An undertaking which may also act to increase inflation its self!?
That’s fewer kids on my damn lawn! (shakes fist)
And more fucking! I wish I had done more fucking.
