Obviously, or at least I think so, this generates a lot of conspiracy-worthy questions.
The most glaring of which being, why do they really want us to have more babies?
The PR answer is some bullshit about being ‘pronatalist’, as they’ve termed it, spinning it into the classic right vs. left horseshit narrative they like for everything to fall into so we can argue among ourselves.
But that’s precisely my point: this topsy-turvy reality we’ve been living in as of late is so blatantly fabricated at this point, it’s nauseating.
I mean, for literally decades now, everything has been telling us the world is overpopulated and poorly managed and we’re all bulleting toward this inevitable Armageddon of a lack of resources, pollution, hunger, housing, etc. etc. etc.
And now, all of a sudden….we don’t have enough people?
C’mon. I’m tired. What else is made up, if this is how they want to play it?
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Smaller, stronger tribes do better. Healthy decompression (natural population decline) gives people time to consolidate, think, and train. And it’s all tribal warfare.
The US demographics and population collapse doesn’t really have much of anything to do with resource scarcity, so the pronatalist agenda isn’t strictly in opposition to any claims of overpopulation (which is also not true, but resource scarcity is a geographically-relevant problem).
Ha anyone tried… I dunno…. Taking their rights away?
I’ve heard replacement theory and now I’m hearing theories where it’s problematic if people from the country are having babies, no matter what the gov does, ppl will say they’re being nefarious. How bout they want ppl to have babies cause of the declining birth rate in countries? How bout that.
The “overpopulation” bullshit is made up by the elitists who are afraid of redistribution of wealth. Their “pro-natalism” is also bullshit, they’re probably just gonna ban something or reduce peoples rights further
The best way to convince families to have children is to create the conditions where you earn enough to maintain a family and have the time to bond with your children
It’s men who don’t want kids because the modern laws make female promiscuity too unaccountable
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>I mean, for literally decades now, everything has been telling us the world is overpopulated
The problem is that we are currently on the brink two different population related disasters.
The world is overpopulated. With enough effort we could solve this, but at the moment we are drastically fucking up the environment by not managing our resources.
The second population crisis is the opposite. The economy is basically a ponzi scheme in the sense that it only works if the next generation is larger then the previous. You need people to both take care of the aging population and fulfill the rest of the needs of the workforce.
So basically taking a stance on the baby making problem is just taking a stance on which disaster you think would have worse consequences. If we lower the population we suffer economic collapse, if we continue to raise the population then we will eventually exert more stress on the planet leading to resource scarcity and far more extinctions.
We could heavily invest into both making children more convenient and in being more environmentally friendly. But the politics and money involved to do anything other then virtue signal is probably not going to happen. So pick your disaster
Isn’t having a baby in the states way too expensive? No stable politics, nightmare healthcare system (awful for everyone involved) the educational system is also a joke, nothing but debt. Too many guns. Whole of America is like an awful high security prison where every inmate is armed. The walls aren’t there to keep the illegals out. It’s insane how many us kids have never been to a dentist.