Why aren't you creating more workers??
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I would kill for a family. I'll die alone, I've accepted that. I understand that im unconventional and weird, I just wish I could meet someone that reflected that. But it's just not in the cards for a man like myself. So ill die surrounded by my animals and hopefully they'll consume my flesh so I can become Jesus 2.0 but with animals
You and me both sis
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This, but also retirement being a thing.
100 years ago, kids were much less of an investment than today (they'd start pulling their own financial weight at like age 6-12, not at age 20-30 like today) and they'd be the only thing making the difference between being able to retire to one of your kids' home or the poor house.
Nowadays kids take much more money and time to get ready, and if you have no kids you can still retire and have your retirement financed by other peoples' kids. And then you even get to keep all the money you would have spent on getting your kids ready for the world, and you can spend it on yourself.
Financially speaking, having kids used to be a necessity and now it's a pretty bad choice.
if you have no kids you can still retire and have your retirement financed by other peoples' kids.
Don't worry. They are working on getting rid of this.
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im not spending a fortune to raise a child when i can barely afford eggs
Don't worry when they get desperate enough they'll make condoms illegal
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I mean you're half right. In a zoo, the keepers care for their animals, making sure they're well fed, enriched, and healthy.
We're being farmed. They are using us to make money from our produce (labour). They're using us to make money. We're so over exploited we simply cannot afford to have children.
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It would be economically viable up to a certain age. And if you maintained a certain age average, costs could be easily maintained to sustainable levels.
When you start analyzing the world and people as a series of costs and expenses, it's very easy to find solutions.
As humans, we've already done that many times before .... most recently in the 1940s on an industrial scale .... we are capable of doing it again.
If we're going that route billionaires are less economically viable than children...
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Children also do disgusting things but they usually grow out of it, whereas a cat can be joking up hairballs its entire life
They can at least learn to mitigate it. My cat learned that I preferred that he puke on the linoleum rather than the wood floor/carpet. He made an effort to do so.
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The problem developed nations are currently facing is that we need enough young people working to continue to support the current population as it ages and retires. The absolute population probably doesn't need to be as big as it is (unless you plan on starting a war like Russia for example) but it's not clear how to manage a reducing population gracefully.
Eh... there's always Ättestupa...
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A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation...
Every species of animals naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence, and no species can ever multiply beyond it. But in civilised society it is only among the inferior ranks of people that the scantiness of subsistence can set limits to the further multiplication of the human species; and it can do so in no other way than by destroying a great part of the children which their fruitful marriages produce.
The liberal reward of labour, by enabling them to provide better for their children, and consequently to bring up a greater number, naturally tends to widen and extend those limits. It deserves to be remarked, too, that it necessarily does this as nearly as possible in the proportion which the demand for labour requires. If this demand is continually increasing, the reward of labour must necessarily encourage in such a manner the marriage and multiplication of labourers, as may enable them to supply that continually increasing demand by a continually increasing population.
- Adam Smith, the father of capitalism
They hate Smith almost as much as Marx
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The birth rate moral panic is 100% manufactured by neoliberal capitalists who simultaneously want high consumption and low wages, which is a logical impossibilty. You cannot have a consumerist society where the average consumer lives paycheck to paycheck
I beg to differ; you can definitely have that society; proof is: we are currently living in it!
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I love this person's glasses.
Ok. But what is the mouth
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The birth rate moral panic is 100% manufactured by neoliberal capitalists who simultaneously want high consumption and low wages, which is a logical impossibilty. You cannot have a consumerist society where the average consumer lives paycheck to paycheck
If it's neoliberalism, why is the right always clamouring about it? I think you are misguided on your aim my friend. You are also right, the time of us having things and enjoying our leisure are in the process of being erased for the good old days of company towns and food lines.
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I wish I could feel comfortable bringing children into the world.
I really want to be a parent in my life
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Ok. But what is the mouth
A finger
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UK is already on it, lock up anyone for speaking about pantomime action.
lock up anyone for speaking about pantomime action.
They should have silently mime'd about it then, I guess
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Proud owner of a tubal litigation here
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What, are you using the word places as a metaphor or literally, cause I've never heard of a location where you have to have more kids than you can afford, other than maybe villages where kids are seen as free labor
abortions are becoming increasingly illegal
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If it's neoliberalism, why is the right always clamouring about it? I think you are misguided on your aim my friend. You are also right, the time of us having things and enjoying our leisure are in the process of being erased for the good old days of company towns and food lines.
The "right" shy of outright fascists are neoliberals. The term was coined in the eighties and describes a system that like Liberalism classic works primarily off of an idea of a protected class of citizen (as opposed to lesser protected classes of non-citizen) with a series of fundemental "rights" to basic protected freedoms from government interference and choice of "style of life" based around a personal property centric system.
Where Neo-liberalism differs is it detests the welfare state, seeks widespread government deregulation as they see it as an economic deficit, practice widespread government austerity in public programs and seeks to privatize swaths of government services to create new market sectors.
Neo doesn't mean new in a "of the minute" kind of way. The people who came up with the distinction between liberal branches were describing the likes of Ronald Regan and Margret Thatcher.
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Proud owner of a tubal litigation here
I'm genuinely afraid to get vasectomy, thinking "this is just a phase and l might change my mind later"
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I'm genuinely afraid to get vasectomy, thinking "this is just a phase and l might change my mind later"
I suffer post vasectomy pain syndrome that comes and goes randomly over the pass of months, and still, it worth.
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I was born with a penis but Luigi Mangione activated my ovaries
Allegedly.
