Why aren't you creating more workers??
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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.
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Also, maybe 8 billion is "enough". Not breeding is only a problem for the economy. Capitalism needs perpetual growth, there is no end game, just more, of everything, forever.
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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
It's only because capitalism demands it. I am tired of people who think we need more people on this planet, we most certainly do not. There is nothing we can't do with 8 billion of us that we can do with 8 billion plus 1.
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Don't worry when they get desperate enough they'll make condoms illegal
Really puts the conservative war on reproductive rights in a new light, doesn't it.
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On a more positive note the newest IPCC report on climate has population decline being the biggest positive impact on climate change, so keep at it!
How this isn't obvious and something we should collectively want is beyond me. We really don't fucking need more than 8 billion people. I don't think we need more than 1, and even that is pushing it.
