• finitebanjo@piefed.world
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    17 hours ago

    Fuck increased birthrates. I want an earth with 3 Billion or less people, I don’t want any of us to have to kill any of them, and no I don’t care that our shitty forefathers made too many babies who are now elderly assholes ruining the planet: fuck em. Productivity has doubled or tripled since their time, we can handle up to triple the burden until they croak.

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      9 hours ago

      Nononono, you don’t get it: looking at the past 4+ governments, I think they want to increase the birth rate of the right people.

      I was so naïve back when had I thought the Labour would be any different from the Tories…

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        22 minutes ago

        Theres a world of difference between the Labour and Tories, you’re not naive just ignorant.

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        5 hours ago

        If they wanted to increase the birthrate if already wealthy people they wouldn’t remove the 2 child cap for benefits.

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        24 minutes ago

        I want to passively watch half of them die, like we are doing now, while not replacing them. Huge difference.

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        5 hours ago

        Whenever population control is mentioned, this inevitably comes up. No, not looking to “remove” anyone, just prevent more births than the natural environment can handle.

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        9 hours ago

        I mean, Thanos’ plan may have been popular if he used the infinity stones to reward mothers for limiting their children, using societal pressure and other tools to limit populations for a generation.

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              5 hours ago

              Carrot vs stick.

              Just give incentives to voluntarily have less kids. Heck, even just education, high wages, and social mobility (particularly for women) typically drops the birth rate at or under 1 child anyway.

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                26 minutes ago

                They were probably referring to that, yes. But most of the issue with China was the additional requirement that only men could inherit the family wealth and title so it led to the killing of female babies and skewing of gender ratios.

                They sorted a lot of that out lately and its done wonders for their quality of life long term, but they also renegged on the whole plan and are pushing growth again.