@JoeChip@n_dimension@Iwillyeah@Daojoan that's the thing: we can lower our numbers by choice, or nature will do it. All sorts of collapses are underway (not like Revelation or anything, just inevitable consequence of our insatiable hunger). We will go down to extinction before we give up a single convenience. The race is on: will we kill ourselves before we render the planet inimical to life?
@JoeChip@n_dimension@Iwillyeah@Daojoan in the US it has been happening since 2007. During the last recession women decided it wasn’t worth having babies if we’re not going to get any paid time off and if we can’t buy a house.
And the birth rates never recovered, then Covid came along and women learned that the free babysitter isn’t always open. And if it’s closed and they can’t go to work there’s no social safety net for them.
So we have seized the means of producing human capital stock, and we have shut it down. The ROI is NOT WORTH IT and they can’t make women unsee how used and abused we have been.
@JoeChip@n_dimension@Iwillyeah@Daojoan in the US it has been happening since 2007. During the last recession women decided it wasn’t worth having babies if we’re not going to get any paid time off and if we can’t buy a house.
And the birth rates never recovered, then Covid came along and women learned that the free babysitter isn’t always open. And if it’s closed and they can’t go to work there’s no social safety net for them.
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@JoeChip @n_dimension @Iwillyeah @Daojoan that's the thing: we can lower our numbers by choice, or nature will do it. All sorts of collapses are underway (not like Revelation or anything, just inevitable consequence of our insatiable hunger). We will go down to extinction before we give up a single convenience. The race is on: will we kill ourselves before we render the planet inimical to life?