It is funny that these oligarchs blame everything, but capitalism for falling birth rates, I’m sure a lot of people would have kids or more kids in the developed world, if they had work life balance and a big enough home to have a family in and childcare & college that didn’t cost 5 or 6 figures per kid in burgerlandia. Oh, but the reason for it is anything but that.
No wage, only spend.
Spears and Geruso concede at the end of the book that they have no theory explaining why fertility rates continue to decline and no plan to avert this possibility.
Utter delusion and garbage analysis that doesn’t once mention capitalism
Dean Spears and Michael Geruso are both economists affiliated with the Population Wellbeing Initiative (PWI) at the University of Texas at Austin. Geruso also served on the Biden administration’s Council of Economic Advisors. The ideas in the book were previewed in two New York Times op-eds, as well as a number of prior academic articles, one of which — “With a Whimper: Depopulation and Longtermism” — Spears has referred to as a “core PWI document.”
The “With a Whimper” paper is more candid about the authors’ intellectual background and motivations than the book itself. In it, Spears and Geruso state that their impulses for pondering these demographic questions are ultimately motivated by longtermist concerns
Of course, eugenist filth
lol as if my AI girlfriend can get pregnant
: “Oh porky, don’t you know no one owes you anything? You’re not entitled to kids!”I love capitalist cope
