• Blottergrass [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    It’s right there in the title. They don’t want us breeding if we’re poor/working class. I’m working class so I guess I can carry on. I’ll check in on the birthrate discourse in 5 years and see how the “pressure people but don’t pay them more” strategy works out for them.

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    This shit is so funny. They’ll do anything except improve material conditions. Next you’ll have to sign a contract before they remove the state-mandated chastity belt on your partner promising you intend to procreate. If the Ministry of Birth finds out you pulled out, straight to jail.

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      Cumming on the breasts? Straight to jail. Using protection? Jail. Not using lube? Also jail. Using too much lube? Interestingly enough, also jail. underwet / overwet.

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    Lowering birth rates by increasing peoples’ standard of living is one of the few climate change wins we can plausibly attribute to human nature. Don’t need any of that eugenics shit, just provide people the opportunity to lead good dignified enriching lives.

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      I don’t trust these attempts under capitalism one bit, but a well-functioning state probably has an interest in not seeing its lonely people driven crazier than necessary by algorithms designed to waste users’ time and make money. I used one like 10 years ago or more but all I hear is how horrible they are from everybody I know. Either ban it or make it functional, I say.

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        As climate change makes more of the planet uninhabitable, people will be forced to move to the habitable zones, increasing population density in those places. Assuming we don’t get to total extinction of humans, we’ll eventually hit the floor for birth rates and they’ll start creeping up again. Might be a few centuries before things stabilize enough for that to happen, though.

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          That’s assuming the economic arrangement during and post climate change is conductive to rising birth rates in the first place.

          What people, especially on the right, don’t realize is that falling birth rates is not a matter of incentive or culture. It’s correlated with rising literacy rates. That’s it. The moment people realize the costs of raising a child in an industrial society and how that affects their future livelihoods they simply don’t. The reason birth rates were high in pre industrial societies is because having lots of children was the economic strategy of every living human - from peasants to landlords to kings and merchants. The reason we had exploding growth rates during the industrializing period is because literacy rates and standards of living actually went down in many places, and didn’t catch up to the industrial reality until much later. Now, having a child is a luxury for the gentry few. Therefore, populations de-grow.

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    I was literally just thinking “what if there was a dating app but it was for like arranged marriages” and here comes japan to make the nightmarish ramblings of my mind a reality

    except my thought was more like “what if there was an app for like a gig economy where old people play matchmaker and negotiate arranged marriages for others” so technically I think my idea was worse

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      Given the age structure in japan and that jobs in the public sector and government tend towards older I’m pretty sure this is materially there.

      What I’m saying is imagine the above foundational tumblr post except it’s the ghost of shinzo abe screaming at other old people and it’s about apps

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        I used to work as an av technician in a corporation, and had to support a lot of company trainings and there was this one, from a PR consulting firm, to the CEO and the executives about fucking memes. A poor zoomer had to explain to a bunch of boomers how different kinds of memes worked. It was obvious everyone on that room knew how ridiculous everything was, but everyone had to act like it was important job.