We just need to like… skip a generation, then breed just enough to stay level.
I don’t think anyone means no one should have children, but man… there’s too many fucking people. And it doesn’t mean killing people, just letting people die naturally while not adding more.
Yeah funny thing is this is basically what we’re already doing. China’s one child policy and neoliberal austerity everywhere else ensured the current generation of children is smaller than ever. We’re running the experiment now, and overall we’d be fine if the countries that have negative growth rates weren’t so xenophobic and let immigrants in to replace their ageing workforce.
Twenty years ago I would have agreed, there’s too many people, but now the pendulum is swinging the other way.
I used to think this. Then I remembered everyone will get old and no one will be around to run the economy.
But … our current economic system is a big part of how things got so bad. Being able to fuck it up is kinda a motivator for not having kids-
We just need to like… skip a generation, then breed just enough to stay level.
I don’t think anyone means no one should have children, but man… there’s too many fucking people. And it doesn’t mean killing people, just letting people die naturally while not adding more.
Yeah funny thing is this is basically what we’re already doing. China’s one child policy and neoliberal austerity everywhere else ensured the current generation of children is smaller than ever. We’re running the experiment now, and overall we’d be fine if the countries that have negative growth rates weren’t so xenophobic and let immigrants in to replace their ageing workforce.
Twenty years ago I would have agreed, there’s too many people, but now the pendulum is swinging the other way.